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Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 19, 58th Parliament - Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2025 on 28 November 2025. The Bill was passed, without amendment, by the Queensland Parliament on Tuesday, 9 December 2025.

View:    Report
View:    Executive Summary
View:    Debate on the Bill in Parliament: Transcript, 9 December 2025 (starts at page 39)

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.

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