Residential Tenancies Amendment (Protection of Personal Information) Bill 2025

An Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 to adopt the Australian Privacy Principles for residential tenancy entities; to provide for additional measures to protect personal information about tenants held by residential tenancy entities and residential tenancy database operators; and for other purposes.

Key details

Type:
Government
Origin:
Legislative Assembly
Status:
In Legislative Council, Second Reading, Set down for a later hour of the sitting, Tue 03 February 2026
Member with carriage:
Mr Anoulack Chanthivong (The Hon. Penny Sharpe)
Bill Remarks:
LC: Referred to Portfolio Committee No. 8 for inquiry 3/02/2026

Documents

Statements of public interest tabled in the Legislative Council can be found under 'Bill Attachments'.

Hansard

Hansard includes speeches and debates on the Bill in both Houses.

Second reading speeches

Legislative Assembly

Legislative Council

Amendments

Members can lodge amendments to Bills that are considered in their House. If a House is not listed, no amendments were lodged by members in that House. Amendments that are agreed to in one House are sent to the other House for agreement.

Progress

The tables below show the progress of the Bill through both Houses, including information on assent. If a House is not listed, the Bill did not pass the originating House.

Legislative Assembly

Initially introduced in the Legislative Assembly

Introduced by Mr Anoulack Chanthivong
Notice of Motion Wed 25 June 2025
Introduced Fri 27 June 2025
First Reading Fri 27 June 2025
2R Speech Fri 27 June 2025
Second Reading Tue 21 October 2025
Considered in Detail Tue 21 October 2025
Third Reading Tue 21 October 2025
Passed with an amdt Tue 21 October 2025
Legislative Council
Member with carriage The Hon. Penny Sharpe
Introduced Wed 22 October 2025
First Reading Wed 22 October 2025
2R Speech Tue 03 February 2026

Legislation review digest

See Legislation Review Digest No. 33 of 58 for an examination of this Bill by the Legislation Review Committee.

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