Committee Details

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.

Call for submissions

Submissions closed at 10:00am on Tuesday, 8 April 2025. Submissions accepted by the committee can be viewed under the “Submissions” tab above.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee held a public briefing on the Bill by Queensland Health on Monday, 31 March 2025 and a public hearing on Wednesday, 23 April 2025. See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 2 May 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