Proposals for Members’ Bills

A member seeking to introduce a Member’s Bill must first lodge a draft proposal, together with a consultation document (or a statement of reasons why consultation is not considered necessary).  Subsequently, the member may lodge a final proposal, in broadly similar terms to the draft, accompanied by a summary of consultation responses (or the statement of reasons).  The member secures the right to introduce a Bill to give effect to the proposal if the final proposal secures, within one month, the support of at least 18 other members from at least half the political parties or groups represented in the Parliamentary Bureau, and provided no statement is made that the Scottish Government is planning equivalent legislation.

All current proposals (together with associated documents) are available on the Scottish Parliament website at Proposals for Members’ Bills/Session 6 Proposals:

Proposals for Bills – Scottish Parliament | Scottish Parliament Website  

Final Proposal for a Member’s Bill

Sarah Boyack: Proposed Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill —Proposal for a Bill to ensure policy development and implementation by public bodies is in line with principles of sustainable development and wellbeing by introducing a duty for public bodies to promote these principles and establishing a Commissioner for sustainable development and wellbeing (lodged 7 November 2023)

The proposal was accompanied by a summary of consultation responses, which is accessible online via the website page referred to above. The summary, and individual responses, may also be viewed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).

Supported by : Monica Lennon, Foysol Choudhury, Rhoda Grant, Jackie Baillie, Colin Smyth, Martin Whitfield, Maurice Golden, Jeremy Balfour, Pauline McNeill, Neil Bibby, Mark Griffin, Carol Mochan, Paul Sweeney, Daniel Johnson, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Richard Leonard, Alex Rowley, Mercedes Villalba, Paul O’Kane