Committee Details

About the Bill 

On 14 October 2025, the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services introduced the Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2025 (the Bill) 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 is an omnibus Bill amending the 8 pieces of Health portfolio legislation to improve the governance of the health system and ensure relevant legislation operates effectively. 

The Bill proposes various amendments to the following pieces of legislation to achieve certain objectives, including:

• Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2024 (ART Act) – the Bill proposes amendments to the ART Act to support the implementation of the regulatory framework for assisted reproductive technology (ART) services in Queensland. The ART Act introduced a regulatory framework for ART and introduced a donor conception information register. The amendments are intended to clarify provisions, promote equitable outcomes, and, where appropriate, provide a pathway for case-by-case decision making by the Queensland Health Chief Executive to ensure that the administration of the Act does not result in undue hardship.
• Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011, Health and Wellbeing Queensland Act 2019, Pharmacy Business Ownership Act 2024, and Hospital Foundation Act 2018 – the Bill proposes amendments to these various Acts to allow for the removal of board members, and the CEO for Health and Wellbeing Queensland and the Queensland Pharmacy Business Ownership Council, by the Governor-in-Council, with or without grounds. The proposed amendments are intended to facilitate without cause removal and reflect the public importance of these roles. They are considered necessary to ensure office holders may be removed where the Minister or Government has lost confidence in office holders.
• Private Health Facilities Act 1999 – the proposed amendments are intended to ensure that private health facilities that provide cosmetic surgery are required to comply with national standards of accreditation (National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards) and support the safe delivery of cosmetic surgery in Queensland.
• Transplant and Anatomy Act 1979 – the proposed amendments are intended to maximise opportunities for organ donation in cases of circulatory death by providing a framework for consent to allow certain procedures and investigations to be conducted to determine suitability for donation.  
• Public Health Act 2005 – the proposed amendments make minor and consequential amendments to require notifications of occupational respiratory diseases in accordance with changes to Commonwealth legislation.

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

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 Bill

The closing date for submissions is 10am, Tuesday 4 November 2025. 

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

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. Please note that if you are submitting on behalf of an organisation, the organisation name will be public. 

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has scheduled a public briefing on the Bill by officers from Queensland Health on Wednesday, 29 October 2025 and a public hearing on Wednesday, 19 November 2025.  See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 28 November 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