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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 1 August 2024 · Integrity and democracy

Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Bill 2024: instruction to committee

Voting yes supported instructing the committee that it may consider amendments and new clauses to the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 on the membership and chair of joint investigatory and privileges committees in the Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Bill 2024.

Passed24 yes 15 no

The question put

That it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to consider amendments and new clauses to amend the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 to require that all joint investigatory committees and privileges committees must have not more than half of their members from a political party forming the government and a chairperson who is not from such a party.

How each party voted

Members who didn't vote (absent, paired or in the chair) aren't listed. A party votes as one when at least three quarters of its members vote together.

Source: Hansard, Parliament of Victoria. The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority.