Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Vote: Bills — Education (Teachers’ Code of Ethics) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Education (Teachers’ Code of Ethics) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Ruth Dyson
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Port Hills)
Hon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills): Can I just note the member Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga’s more considered contribution to this debate than that of his colleagues—it was appreciated. His colleagues demonstrated arrogance and a disregard and a lack of... Read more →
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(58 Ayes – 63 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party | 14 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 2 |
| New Zealand First | 12 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 32 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 59 |
| United Future | 0 | 1 |