Chapter 3 - Publication
of Senate proceedings
Other
publications
Other documents are produced to report proceedings in the Senate and to
inform senators and others of particular matters dealt with during proceedings.
Those documents include:
Order of
Business, issued each
sitting day; sets out the business expected to be considered on that day
Dynamic Red, produced electronically each
sitting day and constantly updated to record business transacted by the Senate
as it occurs, with links to relevant documents
Senate Daily
Summary, produced after
each sitting day and recording all significant transactions in the Senate, including
committee reports tabled
Business of the
Senate, published twice
a year and cumulated annually; contains statistical and other data summarising
the work of the Senate
Work of
Committees, a
twice-yearly and cumulative account of the activities of Senate committees,
with statistical data
Bills List, published fortnightly with daily
updates during sitting periods; lists all bills currently before the Parliament
and summarises the purpose of the bills, the numbers and outcomes of amendments
proposed to the bills, the stage reached in their consideration, assent dates
and statute numbers
Delegated
Legislation Monitor, updated
during sittings; summarises the effects of the instruments of delegated
legislation tabled during the sitting week and notes the dates the instruments
were tabled and made; supplemented by Disallowance Alert (daily) and Scrutiny
of Disallowable
Instruments (weekly in sittings) giving information on
disallowance actions in the Senate and matters raised by the Regulations and
Ordinances Committee (see Chapter 15, Delegated Legislation and Disallowance)
Questions on
Notice Summary, tabled
at the beginning of each sitting period; lists questions which are asked (by
number only), the dates they were asked and answered and relevant references in
Hansard
Scrutiny of
Bills Alert Digest,
tabled each sitting week; summarises the bills considered by the Scrutiny of
Bills Committee that week and draws attention to provisions which the committee
considers may contravene the principles contained in its terms of reference; the
committee follows up in its reports on matters raised in the digests.
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