Bill · 4 December 2025
Nurse practitioners legislation amendment bill 2025
In short
- Proposed
- Rachel Stephen-Smith brought this bill on 4 December 2025.
- Changed
- 1 change proposed by Mark Parton; 0 agreed.
- Decided
- Agreed. No individual votes were recorded, so this doesn't show who supported it.
- What was proposedRachel Stephen-SmithLabor · Minister
Original wording
for an Act to amend legislation about nurse practitioners, and for other purposes. Paper: Ms Stephen-Smith presented the following paper: Explanatory statement to the Bill, incorporating a compatibility statement, pursuant to section 37 of the Human Rights Act 2004. Title read by Clerk.
The exact wording of this change
No 1 (see Schedule 1) that had not been considered or reported on by the Scrutiny Committee and not circulated in accordance with standing order 178A. Debate continued.
Not agreed on the voices. No individual votes were recorded.
- What the Assembly decidedAgreed
Decided on the voices: no individual votes were recorded, so this doesn’t show that every MLA agreed.
The Minutes don’t print the final text for this one, so we can’t show the agreed wording.
Other recorded votes in this debate
That this Bill be agreed to in principle
Ayes 14
- Yvette Berry, Marisa Paterson, Chris Steel, Tara Cheyne, Rachel Stephen-Smith, Caitlin Tough, Taimus Werner-Gibbings, Suzanne Orr
- Andrew Braddock, Shane Rattenbury, Jo Clay, Laura Nuttall
- Fiona Carrick, Thomas Emerson
Noes 7
- Chiaka Barry, Peter Cain, Leanne Castley, Ed Cocks, Jeremy Hanson, James Milligan, Mark Parton
Check the official record
- Minutes of Proceedings No 43, 4 December 2025, item 11
- Minutes of Proceedings No 48, 25 February 2026, item 24
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