{"id":"BILL-WA-DCF4DF5DC0E0830D48258CAD000AAD61","name":"Appropriation (Recurrent 2025–26) Bill 2025","slug":"appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025","collection":"bill","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":"2025-06-19","administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":446152,"registerId":"BILL-WA-DCF4DF5DC0E0830D48258CAD000AAD61:current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2025-06-19","status":"in_force","reasons":null,"registeredAt":"2026-05-08T16:47:25.923Z"},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"retrieval-0001","sectionType":"document_chunk","heading":"Document excerpt 1","content":"# Appropriation (Recurrent 2025–26) Bill 2025\n\n23—1 page i\nWestern Australia\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nContents\n1. Short title 2\n2. Commencement 2\n3. Issue and application of moneys 2\n4. Appropriation for recurrent services and purposes 2\nSchedule 1 — Consolidated Account\nfor the year ending 30 June 2026\n\npage 1\nWestern Australia\nLEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nA Bill for\nAn Act to grant supply and to appropriate and apply out of the\nConsolidated Account certain sums for the recurrent services and\npurposes of the year ending 30 June 2026.\nThe Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\ns. 1\npage 2\n1. Short title1\nThis is the Appropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Act 2025.2\n2. Commencement3\nThis Act comes into operation as follows —4\n(a) sections 1 and 2 — on the day on which this Act5\nreceives the Royal Assent;6\n(b) the rest of the Act — on the day after that day.7\n3. Issue and application of moneys8\n(1) The sum of $33 278 408 000 is to be issued and may be applied9\nout of the Consolidated Account as supply granted for the year10\nbeginning on 1 July 2025 and ending on 30 June 2026.11\n(2) The sum referred to in subsection (1) is additional to supply12\ngranted by the Appropriation (Capital 2025-26) Act 2025.13\n4. Appropriation for recurrent services and purposes14\nThe sum of $33 278 408 000 granted by section 3 as supply is15\nappropriated from the Consolidated Account for the recurrent16\nservices and purposes expressed in Schedule 1 and detailed in17\nthe Agency Information in Support of the Estimates for the year.18\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nConsolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026 Schedule 1\npage 3\nSchedule 1 — Consolidated Account for the year ending1\n30 June 20262\n[s. 4]3\nItem $\nPARLIAMENT\n1 Legislative Council .................................................... 6 424 000\n2 Legislative Assembly ................................................. 6 425 000\n3 Parliamentary Services ............................................... 24 732 000\n4 Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative\nInvestigations ............................................................. 12 885 000\nGOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION\n5 Premier and Cabinet ................................................... 224 473 000\n6 Premier and Cabinet — Administered Grants,\nSubsidies and Other Transfer Payments ..................... 192 612 000\n7 Public Sector Commission ......................................... 36 671 000\n8 Governor’s Establishment .......................................... 2 440 000\n9 Western Australian Electoral Commission ................ 8 583 000\n10 Salaries and Allowances Tribunal .............................. 1 144 000\n11 Commissioner for Children and Young People ......... 3 053 000\n12 Office of the Information Commissioner ................... 5 321 000\n13 Registrar, Western Australian Industrial Relations\nCommission ................................................................ 10 262 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nSchedule 1 Consolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026\npage 4\nItem $\nFINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION\n14 Treasury and Finance ................................................. 123 076 000\nTreasury and Finance Administered\n15 Bunbury Water Corporation ................................... 9 168 000\n16 Busselton Water Corporation .................................. 4 359 000\n17 Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation\n(Synergy) ................................................................ 778 483 000\n18 Gold Corporation .................................................... 6 078 000\n19 Southern Ports Authority ........................................ 2 851 000\n20 Mid West Ports Authority ....................................... 6 029 000\n21 Public Transport Authority of Western Australia ... 1 412 781 000\n22 Regional Power Corporation (Horizon Power) ....... 25 707 000\n23 Water Corporation .................................................. 756 244 000\n24 Western Australian Land Authority\n(DevelopmentWA) .................................................. 217 073 000\n25 Western Australian Land Authority\n(DevelopmentWA) — Provision for Lease\nIncentives (Strategic Industrial Areas) .................... 1 700 000\n26 Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and\nSport ........................................................................ 50 257 000\n27 Department of Energy and Economic\nDiversification ......................................................... 10 139 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nConsolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026 Schedule 1\npage 5\nItem $\n28 Department of Housing and Works ........................ 86 298 000\n29 Department of the Premier and Cabinet .................. 19 000 000\n30 Department of Transport and Major\nInfrastructure ........................................................... 4 900 000\n31 Goods and Services Tax (GST) Administration\nCosts ........................................................................ 76 200 000\n32 National Redress Scheme and Civil Litigation for\nSurvivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse\nAccount ................................................................... 82 001 000\n33 Noongar Land Fund ................................................ 5 600 000\n34 Provision for Government Wages Policy ................ 149 940 000\n35 Provision for National Disability Insurance\nScheme Additional Contributions ........................... 163 100 000\n36 Royalties for Regions .............................................. 953 824 000\n37 State Property — Emergency Services Levy .......... 23 361 000\n38 WA Health .............................................................. 12 266 000\n39 Western Australian Land Authority\n(DevelopmentWA) — Provision for Housing ........ 61 631 000\n40 Treasury and Finance — All Other Grants, Subsidies\nand Transfer Payments, comprising:\nActs of Grace / Ex Gratia Payments ....................... 200 000\nAdministration Costs — National Tax Equivalent\nRegime Scheme ...................................................... 125 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nSchedule 1 Consolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026\npage 6\nItem $\nBuilding Bonus Homebuyers Grant ........................ 500 000\nEnergy Concession Extension Scheme ................... 3 514 000\nElectricity Credits (State and Commonwealth) ...... 1 354 000\nIncidentals ............................................................... 200 000\nInterest on Public Moneys Held in Participating\nTrust Fund Accounts ............................................... 11 500 000\nLife Support Equipment Subsidy Scheme .............. 1 596 000\nNational Partnership on Homebuilder ..................... 660 000\nOff-the-Plan Duty Rebate Scheme .......................... 500 000\nPayroll Tax Rebate Scheme .................................... 50 000\nPensioner Concessions — Emergency Services\nLevy ........................................................................ 28 500 000\nPensioner Concessions — Local Government\nRates ........................................................................ 139 908 000\nRefund of Past Years Revenue Collections —\nPublic Corporations ................................................ 10 000 000\nRefund of Past Years Revenue Collections —\nRoyalties ................................................................. 2 000 000\nRefund of Past Years Revenue Collections —\nTaxation .................................................................. 55 500 000\nThermoregulatory Dysfunction Energy Subsidy .... 2 068 000\nWestern Australian Land Information Authority —\nValuation Services .................................................. 190 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nConsolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026 Schedule 1\npage 7\nItem $\nWestern Australian Treasury Corporation\nManagement Fees ................................................... 922 000\nWorkCover WA Authority ..................................... 2 919 000\n41 Office of the Auditor General .................................... 16 016 000\nJOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT\n42 Energy and Economic Diversification ....................... 331 799 000\n43 Energy and Economic Diversification —\nAdministered Grants, Subsidies and Other Transfer\nPayments .................................................................... 128 777 000\n44 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport ...................... 452 935 000\n45 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nAdministered Grants, Subsidies and Other Transfer\nPayments .................................................................... 985 000\n46 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nArt Gallery of Western Australia ............................... 10 774 000\n47 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nArts and Culture Trust ................................................ 15 002 000\n48 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nContribution to Community Sporting and Recreation\nFacilities Fund ............................................................ 12 000 000\n49 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nLibrary Board of Western Australia ........................... 30 344 000\n50 Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport —\nWestern Australian Museum ...................................... 38 851 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nSchedule 1 Consolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026\npage 8\nItem $\n51 Primary Industries and Regional Development ......... 290 631 000\n52 Primary Industries and Regional Development —\nAdministered Grants, Subsidies and Other Transfer\nPayments .................................................................... 1 550 000\n53 Mines, Petroleum and Exploration ............................. 114 647 000\n54 Mines, Petroleum and Exploration — Administered\nGrants, Subsidies and Other Transfer Payments ........ 64 992 000\n55 Small Business Development Corporation ................ 19 136 000\n56 Rural Business Development Corporation ................. 323 000\n57 Economic Regulation Authority ................................. 2 671 000\nHEALTH\n58 WA Health ................................................................. 7 971 775 000\n59 Mental Health Commission ........................................ 1 160 763 000\n60 Mental Health Commission — Mental Health\nAdvocacy Service ....................................................... 7 846 000\n61 Mental Health Commission — Mental Health\nTribunal ...................................................................... 4 383 000\n62 Mental Health Commission — Office of the Chief\nPsychiatrist ................................................................. 5 590 000\n63 Health and Disability Services Complaints Office .... 3 877 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nConsolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026 Schedule 1\npage 9\nItem $\nEDUCATION AND TRAINING\n64 Education ................................................................... 5 921 242 000\n65 Education — Administered Grants, Subsidies and\nOther Transfer Payments ............................................ 528 961 000\n66 Training and Workforce Development ...................... 652 219 000\nCOMMUNITY SAFETY\n67 Western Australia Police ............................................ 1 928 656 000\n68 Western Australia Police — Administered Grants,\nSubsidies and Other Transfer Payments ..................... 13 895 000\n69 Justice ......................................................................... 1 841 964 000\n70 State Solicitor’s Office ............................................... 54 059 000\n71 Fire and Emergency Services ..................................... 137 919 000\n72 Fire and Emergency Services — Administered\nGrants, Subsidies and Other Transfer Payments ........ 110 256 000\n73 Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions ............ 65 150 000\n74 Corruption and Crime Commission ........................... 33 581 000\n75 Chemistry Centre (WA) ............................................. 11 738 000\n76 Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services ............ 3 837 000\n77 Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime\nCommission ................................................................ 451 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nSchedule 1 Consolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026\npage 10\nItem $\nCOMMUNITY SERVICES\n78 Communities .............................................................. 1 699 447 000\n79 Communities — Administered Grants, Subsidies and\nOther Transfer Payments ............................................ 1 415 027 000\n80 Local Government, Industry Regulation\nand Safety ................................................................... 109 685 000\n81 Local Government, Industry Regulation and\nSafety — Administered Grants, Subsidies and Other\nTransfer Payments ...................................................... 49 715 000\n82 Western Australian Sports Centre Trust ..................... 122 276 000\nTRANSPORT AND MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE\n83 Transport and Major Infrastructure ............................ 156 554 000\n84 Transport and Major Infrastructure — Western\nAustralian Coastal Shipping Commission .................. 100 000\n85 Commissioner of Main Roads .................................... 715 941 000\n86 Housing and Works .................................................... 307 339 000\n87 Infrastructure WA ...................................................... 5 911 000\nENVIRONMENT\n88 Water and Environmental Regulation ........................ 152 202 000\n89 Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions ............... 413 738 000\n\nAppropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Bill 2025\nConsolidated Account for the year ending 30 June 2026 Schedule 1\npage 11\nItem $\nPLANNING AND LAND USE\n90 Planning, Lands and Heritage .................................... 237 121 000\n91 Western Australian Planning Commission ................ 10 632 000\n92 Western Australian Land Information Authority ....... 48 098 000\n93 Heritage Council of Western Australia ...................... 1 614 000\n94 National Trust of Australia (WA) .............................. 4 116 000\nGRAND TOTAL ...................................................... 33 278 408 000","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"status_summary":"The bill has received royal assent and is now the Appropriation (Recurrent 2025-26) Act 2025, coming into effect on the day after royal assent.","complexity_score":2,"likely_questions":["What is the total amount appropriated?","When does the appropriation take effect?","Where can I find detailed breakdowns for each agency's funding?","How does this year's total compare to the previous year's recurrent appropriation?","Does this bill fund any new initiatives or only existing programs?"],"complexity_factors":["Standard annual appropriation bill with no novel legal provisions","Large number of individual appropriation items requiring familiarity with WA government structure","No policy changes or new programs introduced"],"plain_english_summary":"The Appropriation (Recurrent 2025–26) Act 2025 authorises Western Australia to withdraw and spend $33,278,408,000 from the Consolidated Account to fund day‑to‑day government operations, programs, grants and subsidies for 2025–26. Funds become available the day after royal assent (or 1 July 2025 if assent occurred earlier).\n\nThis routine supply bill does not create new policy or obligations; it simply permits spending already budgeted, with major allocations to health, education, transport and other recurring services."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Bill is a routine, single‑year recurrent appropriation that matches its stated purpose: to grant supply and appropriate money for recurrent services and purposes in 2025–26 (s.3–4 and Schedule 1). It does not expand the legislative scope beyond that original purpose. The Act allocates funds to many agencies and programs, but those are line‑item allocations consistent with a typical annual budget supply bill rather than an enlargement of scope."},"complexity_factors":["Short, single-purpose bill (4 substantive sections: short title, commencement, issue/application of moneys, appropriation)","One monetary total specified ($33,278,408,000) in s.3(1)","Schedule 1 contains 94 numbered line items allocating amounts to recipients (length in schedule increases navigational load)","Cross-reference to a separate Capital Appropriation Act (s.3(2)) and to external material (‘Agency Information in Support of the Estimates’) (s.4)","Simple conditional commencement: sections 1–2 on assent day, remainder the following day (s.2)","No complex definitions, nested exceptions, or layered procedural rules in the Bill text itself"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this Bill does (mechanically)**\n\n- This Act authorises the payment of $33,278,408,000 from the Western Australian Consolidated Account for the single financial year beginning 1 July 2025 and ending 30 June 2026 (see s.3(1)).\n- It is a recurrent (day‑to‑day) appropriation: it funds recurrent services and purposes listed in Schedule 1 for that year (see s.4 and Schedule 1).  Capital spending is handled separately and this sum is explicitly additional to any capital appropriation (s.3(2)).\n- Sections 1–2 (short title and commencement timing) come into force on Royal Assent; the rest comes into operation the following day (s.2).\n\n**Who is affected**\n\n- The immediate beneficiaries are the State agencies, public corporations and programs named in Schedule 1 (94 line items). Major recipients include WA Health (item 58), Education (item 64), Public Transport Authority (item 21), Royalties for Regions (item 36) and Main Roads (item 85). The Schedule allocates money both to departments for their own operations and to administered grants, subsidies and transfer payments.\n- The payer is the Consolidated Account (the State’s central bank account made up of revenues and receipts). In practical terms, the cost falls on the State budget and therefore on taxpayers and other sources of state revenue when collected.\n- Private parties are affected indirectly to the extent these recurrent payments fund services they use, payments to contractors, or transfers to public corporations.\n\n**Why it matters (stated purpose, then practical implications and trade‑offs)**\n\n- Officially, the Act grants supply to allow government agencies to carry out their recurrent services and obligations during 2025–26 (s.4). The Schedule itemises where that money may be applied.\n\n- Practical implications and testing the purpose against costs and incentives:\n  - The Act commits a large, one‑year pool of recurrent funding ($33.28 billion) to specific agencies and programs. That constrains the State’s discretionary budget choices for the year — money allocated here cannot be used elsewhere without a further reallocation or additional legislation.\n  - Concentrated benefits: significant shares of the appropriation are concentrated in a small number of large line items (for example, Health and Education). Those agencies and any downstream contractors or service providers receive clearly identified funding (see Schedule 1 items 58, 64, 21, 36, 85).  \n  - Diffuse costs: the payment is drawn from the Consolidated Account; the fiscal cost is borne across the State’s revenue base and may affect future tax, borrowing or spending choices.\n  - Opportunity cost and trade‑offs: by specifying recurrent spending now, the Bill limits the ability of future governments or Treasurers to reallocate those sums within the financial year without further action. Funds used for recurrent payments will not be available for other priorities in 2025–26 unless offsets are found.\n  - Implementation and execution risk: the Act authorises amounts and recipients but does not itself detail program delivery. The agencies named will implement spending according to their budgets and the supporting agency estimates (the Bill references the “Agency Information in Support of the Estimates” at s.4). Delivery risk therefore sits with agencies and Treasury processes rather than the text of the Act.\n  - Administrative burden and discretion: the law itself imposes minimal compliance obligations on private parties. Administrative burden is internal to government — agencies must manage within the appropriated amounts. There is routine Treasury and parliamentary oversight of how appropriations are spent.\n  - Contingent liabilities and transfers: some listed items are grants, subsidies or contributions (for example, items labelled “Administered Grants, Subsidies and Other Transfer Payments”, item 35 NDIS additional contributions, item 32 National Redress). These can create payment obligations that sit outside direct departmental payrolls and require ongoing management.\n\n**How it operates day‑to‑day**\n\n- Parliament (through this Act) authorises the Treasurer to issue the specified sums from the Consolidated Account (s.3). Treasury controls the cash and agencies draw from their appropriations to fund recurrent operations and transfer payments.\n- Details of exactly how each line item is spent are set out in the agencies’ budget papers and the Agency Information in Support of the Estimates (s.4). The Act does not change program rules — it provides the legal authority to pay.\n\n**Key concrete numbers and references**\n\n- Total authorised: $33,278,408,000 (s.3(1)).\n- Schedule 1 contains 94 numbered items specifying recipients and amounts (examples):\n  - WA Health: $7,971,775,000 (item 58)\n  - Education: $5,921,242,000 (item 64)\n  - Public Transport Authority: $1,412,781,000 (item 21)\n  - Royalties for Regions: $953,824,000 (item 36)\n  - Commissioner of Main Roads: $715,941,000 (item 85)\n\n**Bottom line**\n\nThis is a routine, annual appropriation Act that legally authorises the State to spend a specified sum from the Consolidated Account on recurrent services and transfers for the 2025–26 year (s.3–4 and Schedule 1). It commits identifiable money to named agencies and programs for that year, creating clear short‑term budgetary entitlements and constraining the State’s fiscal choices until those funds are expended or reallocated by later action."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-recurrent-2025-26-bill-2025/documents"}}