Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Vote: Bills — Residential Tenancies (Safe and Secure Rentals) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Residential Tenancies (Safe and Secure Rentals) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Metiria Turei
(Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand — List Member)
METIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): New Zealand, take note: if you want decent, fair tenancy laws in this country, you must change the Government in 2017. There is no doubt that the only way that thousands of New Zealand families—450,000 households in... 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
(59 Ayes – 61 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 | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 12 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 31 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 59 |
| United Future | 0 | 1 |