Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 4, 58th Parliament - Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 on Friday, 2 May 2025. The Bill was passed with amendment by the Queensland Parliament on 12 June 2025 .

View: Report
View: Executive Summary
View: Debate on the Bill in Parliament: Transcript 12 June 2025 (starts at page 1731)
The debate on the Bill can viewed by clicking on the movie icon within the above transcript.
 

About the BILL

On 14 March 2025, the Hon Tim Nicholls, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services, introduced the Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Health, Environment and Innovation Committee for detailed consideration.   

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

The Bill proposes to amend the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 to require at least one member of each Hospital and Health Board to be a clinician who is currently employed or engaged by the relevant Hospital and Health Service. 

The Bill proposes amendments to the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998 to allow the Chief Executive of Queensland Health to enable an expedited forfeiture process for vaping products which are seized by Queensland Health. These amendments also propose to empower the Courts to order persons convicted of an offence under the TOSP Act to pay reasonable costs incurred as a result pursuing the offence in the judicial system.

Further information

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

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