Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 13, 58th Parliament – Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 on 6 February 2026. The Bill will be debated in the Legislative Assembly in due course.

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ABOUT THE BILL

On 10 December 2025, the Hon Laura Gerber MP, Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support and Minister for Corrective Services introduced the Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Education, Arts and Communities Committee for detailed consideration.

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The Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 (the Bill) proposes amendments to the Youth Justice Act 1992 (the Act).

In 2021 section 52AA was introduced into the Act, providing that a court, in certain circumstances, may impose a bail condition whereby a child must wear a monitoring device while released on bail. Several changes were made between 2021–2024 to expand the eligible cohort due to low uptake. In 2025, the trial was extended to allow time for a review of the legislation to be undertaken. Following the completion of the review, the Bill proposes to

• make electronic monitoring as a condition of youth bail permanent
• expand the legislation to be deployed statewide (unless the court is advised the child does not live in a location with services to support the condition)
• remove eligibility criteria whereby the child must be at least 15 years of age, charged with a prescribed indictable offence, and previously charged with certain offences
• amend the matters a court must consider when determining if an electronic monitoring condition is appropriate.

The review, tabled by Hon Laura Gerber MP, Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support and Minister for Corrective Services, on 10 December 2025, can be found here.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions closed on 12 January 2026. Submissions can be viewed under the Submissions tab above.

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