Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Vote: Bills — Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill
— Second Reading
🗳️ That the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Moved by
Hon Casey Costello
(New Zealand First Party — List Member)
TIM COSTLEY (National—Ōtaki): Madam Speaker, I’m not going to stand here and listen to members opposite parading around on their moral high horses as if they’re the Midas of anti-smoking. I’m not going to be lectured to by those who drove our... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
against Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to).
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 54 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 | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 14 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 6 |