A bill is a proposed law. See the Parliament’s ‘about bills‘ page for information on how bills are considered and passed by the Western Australian Parliament.
Sources of Western Australian Bills
| Parliament |
- Coverage: 1997-
- Bills are listed alphabetically by title. Click on the title to access an information page about the bill, which usually includes a link to the bill.
- Search full text using the search box at the top of the screen. Note that it defaults to ‘current bills’, but this can be changed to ‘all bills’.
- See also current bills.
- See also the RSS feed for new bills.
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| AustLII |
- Coverage: 1998-
- Browse by title or by year.
- Use ‘name search’ to search the titles of bills.
- Use ‘database search’ to search the full text of bills.
- Click on the ‘download’ link once you have located the bill to access versions formatted for printing etc.
- Click on the ‘related items’ link to access the explanatory memorandum (where available on AustLII).
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| Lawlex |
- Coverage: current bills only
- Type in the name of the bill in the ‘keywords’ field and the year in the ‘year from’ field. Set the jurisdiction to ‘WA’ and the document type to ‘Bill’.
- Each bill on Lawlex has a ‘home page’ – click on the title of the bill to link to the latest version of the bill on the Western Australian Parliament website.
- Note: the subscription version of Lawlex provides a deeper archive of full text bills, information about the progress of bills through Parliament, alerts and more.
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about print holdings of Western Australian bills in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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Information about Western Australian Bills
| Parliament |
- Each individual bill has an information page with information about the bill’s progress through Parliament.
- You can subscribe to an RSS feed for all new bills.
- You can register for email alerts about bills currently before Parliament – locate the bill you are interested in, then follow the prompts to register for alerts for that bill.
- About Bills overview of bills and the legislative process.
- Parliamentary glossary
- Parliament’s home page has information about bills currently being debated and links to Parliament on Twitter and Facebook.
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about various indexes to Western Australian bills, along with details of where to find them in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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| Western Australian Legislation tutorial |
- Includes a step-by-step guide to finding Western Australian bills (with screen shots).
- Provided by Murdoch University Law Library.
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Last updated: 27 February 2014.
