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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

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.

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

The closing date for written submissions is 5.00pm on Monday 12 January 2026.

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.

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.

Further information

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

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday 6 February 2026. 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.

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