Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Vote: Bills — -
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024-25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Simon Watts
(New Zealand National Party — Member for North Shore)
INGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): It’s an even bigger honour to be the final, final speaker on this bill. The reason that we reject this bill is that even though it has a technical sounding name and it has many, many technical elements to it—as we... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 55 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 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 6 |