{"id":"BILL-QLD-3271","name":"Appropriation (Supplementary 2024-2025) Bill 2025","slug":"appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025","collection":"bill","jurisdiction":"qld","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":"2024-01-01","administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":446083,"registerId":"BILL-QLD-3271:current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2024-01-01","status":"in_force","reasons":null,"registeredAt":"2026-05-06T12:45:12.477Z"},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"retrieval-0001","sectionType":"document_chunk","heading":"Document excerpt 1","content":"# Appropriation (Supplementary 2024-2025) Bill 2025\n\nQueensland\nAppropriation (Supplementary\n2024–2025) Bill 2025\n\nQueensland\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025)\nBill 2025\nContents\nPage\n1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\n2 Supplementary appropriation for 2024–2025 based on unforeseen\nexpenditure included in the consolidated fund financial report . . 4\nSchedule 1 Supplementary appropriation for 2024–2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5\n\n2025\nA Bill\nfor\nAn Act authorising the Treasurer to pay amounts from the\nconsolidated fund for particular departments for the financial\nyear starting 1 July 2024\n\n[s 1]\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 4\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nThe Parliament of Queensland enacts—\n1 Short title\nThis Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Supplementary\n2024–2025) Act 2025.\nNote—\nUnder the Financial Accountability Act 2009, section 5, words used in\nthis Act that are defined under the Financial Accountability Act 2009\nhave the same meaning the words have in that Act, subject to a contrary\nintention in this Act.\n2 Supplementary appropriation for 2024–2025 based on\nunforeseen expenditure included in the consolidated\nfund financial report\n(1) The Treasurer is authorised to pay $5,740,982,000 from the\nconsolidated fund for departments as stated in schedule 1 for\nthe financial year starting 1 July 2024.\n(2) For each department, the total amount mentioned for the\ndepartment in schedule 1 is appropriated for the financial year\nfor the department for application to its departmental services,\nequity adjustment and administered items as stated in\nschedule 1.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 5\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nSchedule 1 Supplementary appropriation\nfor 2024–2025\nsection 2\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\nDepartment of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and\nChild Safety (formerly Department of Child Safety,\nSeniors and Disability Services)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 160,865\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 160,865\nDepartment of Housing and Public Works (formerly\nDepartment of Housing, Local Government, Planning\nand Public Works)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 132,694\nequity adjustment 56,822\nAdministered items 42,108\nTotal amount for department 231,624\n1\n2\n3\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 6\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nDepartment of Justice (formerly Department of Justice\nand Attorney-General)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 18,610\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 80,670\nTotal amount for department 99,280\nDepartment of Local Government, Water and\nVolunteers (formerly Department of Regional\nDevelopment, Manufacturing and Water)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 221,205\nequity adjustment 11,092\nAdministered items 71,586\nTotal amount for department 303,883\nDepartment of Natural Resources and Mines,\nManufacturing and Regional and Rural Development\n(formerly Department of Resources)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 42,341\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 2,660\nTotal amount for department 45,001\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 7\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nDepartment of Primary Industries (formerly\nDepartment of Agriculture and Fisheries)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 69,289\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 12,008\nTotal amount for department 81,297\nDepartment of Sport, Racing and Olympic and\nParalympic Games (formerly Department of Tourism\nand Sport)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services ..\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 1,204\nTotal amount for department 1,204\nDepartment of Trade, Employment and Training\n(formerly Department of Employment, Small Business\nand Training)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 7,871\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 7,871\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 8\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nDepartment of Transport and Main Roads\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 47,004\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 358,276\nTotal amount for department 405,280\nDepartment of Youth Justice and Victim Support\n(formerly Department of Youth Justice)\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 25,913\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 118,100\nTotal amount for department 144,013\nElectoral Commission of Queensland\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 8,063\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 8,063\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 9\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nOffice of the Inspector-General of Emergency\nManagement\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 101\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 101\nQueensland Corrective Services\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 14,892\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 14,892\nQueensland Fire Department\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 31,822\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items 249,645\nTotal amount for department 281,467\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 10\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nQueensland Health\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 1,204,069\nequity adjustment 808,628\nAdministered items 3,825\nTotal amount for department 2,016,522\nQueensland Police Service\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 114,060\nequity adjustment ..\nAdministered items ..\nTotal amount for department 114,060\nQueensland Treasury\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 74,492\nequity adjustment 20,235\nAdministered items 1,730,832\nTotal amount for department 1,825,559\nDepartment Amount\n$’000\n\nSchedule 1\nAppropriation (Supplementary 2024–2025) Bill 2025\nPage 11\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nTotal—Departments\nControlled items\ndepartmental services 2,173,291\nequity adjustment 896,777\nAdministered items 2,670,914\nTotal amount for departments 5,740,982\n© State of Queensland 2025\nDepartment Amount\n$’000","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument remains within the original and ordinary scope of a supplementary appropriation: it converts reported unforeseen expenditure into legal authority to spend for the 2024–25 year. It does not create new regulatory powers, taxation measures or ongoing program authorities beyond the one-year appropriations specified in Schedule 1. The only administrative variations are department name updates in the schedule; these do not broaden the Act’s purpose or reach."},"complexity_factors":["Single substantive operative provision (section 2) authorising the payment and appropriation amount.","Schedule 1 lists allocations to around 15 departments/entities across three simple categories (departmental services, equity adjustment, administered items).","Relies on definitions in the Financial Accountability Act 2009 (not repeating many defined terms) — one cross-reference (s 1 note).","No nested exceptions, conditional logic, or regulatory regimes; payments are fixed sums rather than formula-based.","Some administrative complexity from department renaming and mapping (several entries list 'formerly' names), but this is presentational rather than legal complexity."],"plain_english_summary":"**What this Act does (mechanically)\n\n- Authorises the Treasurer to withdraw $5,740,982,000 from the consolidated fund for the 2024–2025 financial year (see section 2(1)).\n- Allocates that total across listed State departments and statutory entities according to the line items in Schedule 1. For each entity the schedule specifies amounts for: departmental services (controlled items), equity adjustment, and administered items (see section 2(2) and Schedule 1).\n- Uses wording that adopts definitions from the Financial Accountability Act 2009 unless this Act says otherwise (see section 1, note).\n\nWho is affected\n\n- The Treasurer and Treasury machinery — the Treasurer is the authorised decision-maker to pay the amounts (s 2).\n- The named departments and entities in Schedule 1, which receive the supplementary funding and may apply it to their departmental services, equity adjustments and administered items.\n- Queensland taxpayers (the consolidated fund is the central public bank account that receipts and payments are made from).\n- Third-party service providers, contractors, grant recipients and other counterparties of the departments where the extra funding finances contracts, grants or program delivery.\n\nWhy it matters\n\n- This is a supplementary appropriation: it increases the money departments are authorised to spend above the amounts passed previously for 2024–2025. The Act therefore changes departmental budgets and the State’s planned cash outlays for the year.\n- The explanatory text ties the spending to \"unforeseen expenditure included in the consolidated fund financial report\"; functionally this law converts those reported/unplanned cash needs into legal authority to spend (s 2 and Schedule 1).\n\nPractical effects and implementation mechanics\n\n- The Act does not create new policy powers or new ongoing programs; it simply provides legal authority to make payments already identified in the consolidated fund financial report. The total and each department’s allocation are fixed in the schedule (s 2 and Schedule 1).\n- Departments will use funds for the three categories listed: departmental services (operational costs under agency control), equity adjustments (changes in asset/equity accounts), and administered items (payments the agency administers on behalf of government or clients). How quickly and precisely funds flow to projects, suppliers or persons depends on normal departmental internal processes and procurement arrangements.\n\nTesting the stated purpose against trade-offs, incentives and implementation issues\n\n- Stated purpose: to cover unforeseen expenditure reported in the consolidated fund financial report. Mechanically the Act does that by appropriating the exact reported sums (s 2 and Schedule 1).\n\n- Who pays and opportunity cost: the consolidated fund is funded from general revenue; the additional $5.74 billion reduces the pool of funds available for other uses this financial year — opportunity cost is the foregone alternative spending or lower Treasury balances.\n\n- Concentration of benefits and fiscal impact: the largest single recipients include Queensland Health (total $2,016,522,000 with large departmental services and equity adjustment items) and Queensland Treasury (notably $1,730,832,000 in administered items) and Transport and Main Roads (total $405,280,000, including $358,276,000 administered). These concentrated allocations will materially change the resource position of those agencies in 2024–25 (see Schedule 1 totals).\n\n- Incentives and moral hazard: routine use of supplementary appropriations can reduce incentives on agencies to fully manage budgets within initial appropriation limits, because unforeseen over-runs may later be regularised by Parliament. This Act fixes amounts rather than leaving open-ended authority, which limits discretion (s 2 and Schedule 1).\n\n- Bureaucratic discretion and control: discretion to pay is given to the Treasurer but the amounts and recipients are prescribed in the schedule. That constrains executive discretion to different uses than those listed; internal departmental discretion over how to apply their authorised amounts remains subject to existing financial management rules (the Act references the Financial Accountability Act 2009 for definitions and related controls).\n\n- Compliance and administrative burden: no major new reporting or regulatory regime is created by this Act. Agencies will continue to operate under existing accountability and reporting frameworks; the administrative cost is primarily the standard expenditure and acquittal work tied to the additional funding.\n\n- Effects on private enterprise and competition: the immediate effect is fiscal — increased payments to agencies may lead to higher procurement and grant flows to private firms and community organisations that contract with the departments named in the schedule. If funds are directed to specific programs or suppliers, that can shift demand and create winners among providers; the Act itself does not make those procurement choices (it supplies the cash authority only).\n\n- Implementation risk: limited. The Act provides appropriation authority; operational delivery risks (project delivery, procurement, service performance) remain managed under standard departmental procedures.\n\nSummary statement of mechanism, actors and behaviour changes\n\n- Who pays: the consolidated fund (public revenue).\n- Who decides: Parliament (by passing the Act) fixes amounts in the schedule; the Treasurer is authorised to make payments (s 2).\n- What behaviour changes: departments gain legal authority to spend more in 2024–25 as specified; suppliers and service providers may see increased contracting opportunities; Treasury’s cash management and overall fiscal balance are adjusted to reflect the extra outlays.\n\nKey figures (selected)\n\n- Total supplementary appropriation: $5,740,982,000 (s 2(1)).\n- Queensland Health total: $2,016,522,000 (Schedule 1).\n- Queensland Treasury total: $1,825,559,000 (Schedule 1), including $1,730,832,000 in administered items.\n- Department of Transport and Main Roads total: $405,280,000 (Schedule 1).\n\nRelevant provisions: section 1 (short title and definition note); section 2 (authority to pay and appropriation mechanics); Schedule 1 (departmental allocations)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-supplementary-2024-2025-bill-2025/documents"}}