State Budgets Must Include Gender Impact Reporting and Assessment

Financial Management Amendment (Gender Responsive Budgeting) Bill 2024

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Effects of this bill

If this bill passes, it means that:

The Victorian Government must consider and promote gender equality and inclusivity when deciding spending and taxing policies.
The Government must account for how gender inequality may be compounded by other factors like age, disability, race, and sexual orientation.
The Minister must prepare a statement detailing the expected impact of the budget on gender equality and inclusivity for each financial year.
The Minister must lay the gender impact statement before both houses of Parliament by the time the annual appropriation Bills are read for a second time.
The Minister can request a gender impact assessment for any matter under the Financial Management Act 1994.
The Minister is empowered to issue guidelines regarding budget gender impact statements and assessments.
The Governor in Council can make regulations regarding the form, content, and timing of these reports and assessments.

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