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Bills under urgency

When the House accords urgency to a bill, stages that usually take months happen in hours — often without select committee scrutiny. This tracker detects urgency motions from the record of the House’s business while the House is still sitting, and records the facts: which bills, which stages, how fast, and what each bill changes. Subscribe by RSS or turn on email alerts in account settings to hear about them in time to act. Methodology →

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Urgency is moved without notice (SO 57(1)), so speed matters. “Bypassed” below is asserted only when the motion’s own wording proves it — full methodology. Errors: corrections.

Bill	Urgency accorded	Select committee	Detected
Patents Amendment Bill This bill amends the Patents Act 2013 to apply stricter criteria for the grant of divisional applications filed under the Patents Act 1953, so that 1953 Act applications are examined in broadly the same way as 2013 Act applications. Hon Cameron Brewer	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Amendment Bill This bill aims to ensure that financial dispute resolution schemes are governed and operated in an effective and independent manner for the benefit of consumers. Hon Cameron Brewer	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill This bill aims to simplify and streamline the effective regulation of financial services by aligning both the regulator and aspects of the regulatory model for consumer credit with that under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, as well as making other improvements to ensure the legislation is clear and proportionate. Hon Cameron Brewer	Third reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill This overall policy objective of this omnibus bill is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of regulatory systems overseen by the Department of Internal Affairs. Hon Brooke van Velden	Third reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill This bill amends the Gas Act 1992, and is intended to improve the information available to help the Government monitor gas markets and help market participants make more efficient decisions. Hon Simeon Brown · passed in a single sitting day	All stages	Bypassed	11 Jul 2026
Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill This bill amends the Social Security Act 2018 and the Social Security Regulation 2018, and is intended to enable the administration of a more efficient, modern welfare system through the use of automated decision making. Hon Louise Upston · passed in a single sitting day	All stages	Bypassed	11 Jul 2026
Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill (No 3) This bill amends the Income Tax Act 2007, the Student Loan Scheme Act 2011, and the Tax Administration Act 1994, and contains tax measures announced as part of Budget 2026. Hon Simon Watts · passed in a single sitting day	All stages	Bypassed	11 Jul 2026
Appropriation (2025/26 Supplementary Estimates) Bill This bill seeks parliamentary authorisation of the individual appropriations and changes to individual appropriations contained in The Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2026. Hon Nicola Willis	First reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Constitution Amendment Bill This bill amends the Constitution Act 1986 to improve the resilience of the mechanisms that provide for the continuity of executive government and the transition of power following an election. Hon Paul Goldsmith	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Plain Language Act Repeal Bill This bill repeals the Plain Language Act 2022 to remove the compliance-based administrative requirements the Act places on public service agencies. Hon Paul Goldsmith	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Mental Health Bill This bill repeals and replaces the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 to create a modern legislative framework for compulsory mental health care. Hon Matt Doocey	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Occupational Regulation) Amendment Bill This bill is included in a package of bills amending regulatory systems administered by the Ministry of Justice. Its policy is to improve the operations and efficiency of occupational regulation. Hon Nicole McKee	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Tribunals) Amendment Bill This bill is included in a package of bills amending regulatory systems administered by the Ministry of Justice. It seeks to improve the operations and efficiency of tribunals and quasi-judicial bodies. Hon Nicole McKee	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Courts) Amendment Bill This bill is included in a package of bills amending regulatory systems administered by the Ministry of Justice. It addresses legislative inconsistencies, relieves administrative burdens and reduces duplication, gaps, errors, and anomalies, and clarifies the roles and expands the powers and jurisdiction of judicial officers. Hon Nicole McKee		Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Social Security) Amendment Bill (No 2) This bill is intended to improve the provision of social welfare benefits and the functioning of the overall social security system. Hon Louise Upston	First reading, Referral to select committee	Referred	11 Jul 2026
Emergency Management Bill (No 2) This bill replaces the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 and gives effect to the Government's response to the Government Inquiry into the Response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. Hon Mark Mitchell	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Environmental Reporting Amendment Bill This bill would amend the Environmental Reporting Act 2015. Among other things, the amendments would restate the purpose of the Act to clarify its intended use and outcomes of reporting, reduce the frequency of synthesis reports (state of the environment reports), strengthen the mechanisms for data collection and set data collection standards, and add drivers and outlooks as required components of environmental reports. Hon Nicola Grigg	First reading, Referral to select committee	Referred	11 Jul 2026
Community Magistrates Legislation Amendment Bill This is an omnibus Bill to expand the jurisdiction of Community Magistrates to free up judicial resource and improve the timeliness of cases in the District Court. Hon Nicole McKee	First reading, Referral to select committee	Referred	11 Jul 2026
Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (3 Day Postnatal Stay) Amendment Bill This bill provides women who have just given birth with access to their choice of post-natal care for a minimum of 72 hours if desired. Hon Simeon Brown	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Infrastructure Funding and Financing Amendment Bill The purpose of this bill is to improve infrastructure funding and financing tools to support urban development. Hon Chris Bishop	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill The single broad policy of this omnibus bill is to ensure that key revenue tools effectively support a user-pays basis for funding land transport. Hon Chris Bishop	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Crimes Amendment Bill This bill amends the Crimes Act 1961 to strengthen consequences for certain crimes and meet commitments in the National/New Zealand First coalition agreement. Hon Paul Goldsmith	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill This primary policy objective of this bill is to reduce pressure on council rates by refocusing the purpose of local government, better measuring and publicising council performance, prioritising core services in council spending, strengthening council accountability and transparency, and providing regulatory relief to councils. Hon Simon Watts	Second reading	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill This bill amends the Climate Change Response Act 2002 to create a statutory bar on tort liability for emissions-related climate change effects. Hon Paul Goldsmith	First reading, Referral to select committee	Referred	11 Jul 2026
Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill This bill is to establish a more proportionate and risk-based regulatory system for managing earthquake-prone buildings that will regulate only high-risk building types in medium and high seismic zones. Hon Chris Penk	First reading, Referral to select committee, Second reading	Referred	11 Jul 2026
Regulatory Systems (Primary Industries) Amendment Bill This policy objective of this omnibus bill is to improve regulatory systems by ensuring that they are effective and efficient, and that they accord with best regulatory practice. Hon Todd McClay	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill This bill amends the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022. Its objective is to improve the effectiveness of health services delivery to patients. Hon Simeon Brown	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Offshore Renewable Energy Bill This bill establishes a legislative regime to govern the construction, operation, and decommissioning of offshore renewable energy developments. Hon Simeon Brown	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill This bill is intended to reduce unnecessary compliance costs, increase certainty for businesses and organisations about their obligations, and continue to reduce the incidence of workplace fatalities, injuries, and illnesses. Hon Brooke van Velden	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026
Antisocial Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill The single broad policy of this omnibus bill is to deter antisocial driving behaviour that negatively affects road and community safety in New Zealand. Hon Chris Bishop	All remaining stages	Not determinable from the motion	11 Jul 2026