Division Description Changes — Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020; Third Reading — 3rd Sep 2020

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senate vote 2020-09-03#2 Edited by mackay staff on 2020-09-25 08:39:17	Title Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020; Third Reading Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Pass the bill Description ~~<p class="speaker">Mathias Cormann</p>~~ ~~<p>I move:</p>~~ ~~<p class="italic">That this bill be now read a third time.</p>~~ The majority voted in favour of passing the bill in the Senate. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to [read the bill for a third time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/). The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives for their consideration. ### What does the bill do? According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2021a/21bd011), the purpose of the bill was to implement a number of unrelated technical amendments, including to: *** clarify the operation of the public funding provisions where candidates for more than one party are in the same group on a Senate ballot paper (Senate groups)** * replace the provisions relating to the interaction of state and federal political finance laws held to be invalid by the High Court of Australia in [Spence v Queensland](http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2019/15.html?context=1;query=2019%20hca%2015%20;mask_path=) *** increase the flexibility of voting options to be offered to Australian voters in Antarctica and** * introduce a number of technical amendments, some of which were previously proposed in the [Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2018](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6240) but removed prior to passage. ~~<p class="speaker">Claire Chandler</p>~~ ~~<p>The question is the bill be read a third time.</p>~~

~~Mathias Cormann~~
~~I move:~~
~~That this bill be now read a third time.~~
The majority voted in favour of passing the bill in the Senate. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to [read the bill for a third time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/). The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives for their consideration.
### What does the bill do?
According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2021a/21bd011), the purpose of the bill was to implement a number of unrelated technical amendments, including to:
* *clarify the operation of the public funding provisions where candidates for more than one party are in the same group on a Senate ballot paper (Senate groups)*
* *replace the provisions relating to the interaction of state and federal political finance laws held to be invalid by the High Court of Australia in [Spence v Queensland](http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2019/15.html?context=1;query=2019%20hca%2015%20;mask_path=)*
* *increase the flexibility of voting options to be offered to Australian voters in Antarctica and*
* *introduce a number of technical amendments, some of which were previously proposed in the [Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2018](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6240) but removed prior to passage.*
~~Claire Chandler~~
~~The question is the bill be read a third time.~~