Victoria · Employment
Firefighters' Presumptive Rights Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
Lapsed: Not passed before parliament was prorogued or dissolved, usually for an election. It can be introduced again in the new parliament. What the other terms mean
- Parliament
- Parliament of Victoria
- Introduced
- 2 Aug 2023
- Latest stage
- 3 Nov 2026
- Introduced by
- Dr Samantha Ratnam
- Stage detail
- Lapsed
What the bill says it does
The purpose of this Act is to amend the Firefighters' Presumptive Rights Compensation and Fire Services Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2019 and the Forests Act 1958 to provide for an additional 9 specified forms of cancer that are presumed to be caused by the nature of a firefighter's employment for the purposes of claiming compensation under the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013.
Quoted from: Purpose clause of the bill as introduced. Not written or edited by FOCUp.
Official sources
Timeline
First reading passed — Legislative Council
2 Aug 2023
First reading: Statement of compatibility tabled — Legislative Council
16 Aug 2023 · Source
Second reading moved — Legislative Council
16 Aug 2023 · Source
Bill lapsed — Legislative Council
3 Nov 2026
Status changed from Upper House to Lapsed
Noticed by FOCUp 5 Nov 2026 · Source
Lapsed
Where it sits in the budget
Government function: Jobs and workplace programs
- Economic affairs$3.9B spending, 2026-27
This links the bill's subject to a budget area using published rules. It is not a costing: parliaments do not publish what a bill will cost as data, and FOCUp does not estimate it.
Try the Victoria budget yourself →Like it or not?
Anonymous. No account and no email — only a count is kept.
No reactions yet.
Results reflect self-selected FOCUp users and are not representative opinion polling.
Comments
Anonymous, and written by FOCUp visitors — not by FOCUp. No names, links, contact details or abuse: comments are checked automatically, and any comment can be removed.
No comments yet.