Committee Details

About the Bill 

On 27 June 2025 the Hon Sam O’Connor MP, Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth introduced the Queensland Building and Construction Commission and Other Legislation Amendment Bill into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the State Development, Infrastructure and Works Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility 

The amendments in the Bill are the third tranche of the ‘Building Reg Reno’ (Building Regulation Renovation) package of reforms, which aims to improve productivity within Queensland’s building and construction industry while continuing to support efficient, risk-based regulatory effort and appropriate building standards. The objectives of the Bill are to: 

• ensure a contemporary, modernised regulatory framework for the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC)
• support the QBCC’s transition in delivering more services digitally to improve efficiency and customer experience
• streamline workplace safety notifications to improve productivity in Queensland’s building and construction industry.

The Bill amends the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991, Building Act 1975 and Plumbing and Drainage Act 2017 to give effect to these reforms. The explanatory notes state that the amendments remove legislative impediments that restrict the QBCC’s ability to provide user-friendly and electronic services, including:

• removing the requirement for a QBCC licence to be issued as a hard copy card
• introducing a pathway to serve documents digitally.

According to the explanatory notes the Bill also includes amendments to make the process for reporting a safety matter less complex for QBCC licensees by:

• not requiring QBCC licensees to notify the QBCC of a safety matter if they are required to notify the regulator under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) or Electrical Safety Act 2002 (ES Act)
• making changes to the notification processes under the WHS Act or ES Act to ensure the regulator under the WHS Act or ES Act can promptly provide appropriate information to the QBCC about serious safety matters on building sites through information-sharing arrangements.

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are published under the Related Publications tab when available.

Call for submissions

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties. Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here: Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements.

Click here to make an online submission to the inquiry.

If you are unable to provide a written submission, please contact the secretariat to discuss other options.

The closing date for written submissions is Tuesday, 15 July 2025 at 12:00pm (midday). 

Submissions must include:

• the author’s full name 
• if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and
• at least two of the following:
• email address
• mailing address, and
• daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has scheduled a public briefing on the Bill with officers from the Department of Housing and Public Works on Wednesday, 9 July 2025, and a public hearing is planned for Thursday, 24 July 2025. See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 15 August 2025. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline