📜 Official Text

(1) There is freedom of speech in every State's Legislature, subject to the Constitution and its own rules. (2) No member is liable in court for anything said or voted in the Legislature or a committee, nor is anyone liable for authorised publication of reports/proceedings. (3) Other privileges are as the state Legislature defines by law, and until then, as they stood immediately before the relevant 44th Amendment provision came into force. (4) These provisions extend to non-members with a constitutional right to speak in the Legislature.