Victoria · Health
Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2026
- Parliament
- Parliament of Victoria
- Introduced
- 28 July 2026
- Latest stage
- 1 Sept 2026
- Introduced by
- Hon Melissa Horne
- Stage detail
- Passed and Assented to
What the bill says it does
The main purpose of this Act is to amend the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 to categorise or recategorise certain hospitals for the purposes of nurse to patient and midwife to patient ratios under that Act.
Quoted from: Purpose clause of the bill as introduced. Not written or edited by FOCUp.
Official sources
Timeline
First reading passed — Legislative Assembly
28 July 2026
First reading: Statements of compatibility tabled — Legislative Assembly
29 July 2026 · Source
Second reading moved — Legislative Assembly
29 July 2026 · Source
Second reading: Government Business Program — Legislative Assembly
11 Aug 2026
Second reading: Debate resumed — Legislative Assembly
12 Aug 2026
Second reading: Debate resumed — Legislative Assembly
13 Aug 2026
Second reading passed — Legislative Assembly
13 Aug 2026
Third reading moved — Legislative Assembly
13 Aug 2026
Third reading passed — Legislative Assembly
13 Aug 2026
Message received from Assembly — Legislative Council
13 Aug 2026
First reading passed — Legislative Council
13 Aug 2026
First reading: Statements of compatibility tabled — Legislative Council
13 Aug 2026 · Source
Second reading moved — Legislative Council
13 Aug 2026 · Source
Second reading: Debate resumed — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Second reading passed — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Committee of the whole: Date committed — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Committee of the whole completed - Bill not amended — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Third reading moved — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Third reading passed — Legislative Council
25 Aug 2026
Royal Assent given
1 Sept 2026
Act number 34/2026
Date not published
Where it sits in the budget
Government function: Health services
- Health$34.8B spending, 2026-27
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