Victoria's IBAC still awaiting reforms

Changes to beef up Victoria's integrity regime will likely have to wait until next year, as both major parties blame each other for the delay.

The government introduced a bill to reform the regime into parliament this week - the last sitting week before the November state election - but it failed to get up for debate and was not passed, meaning it will be up to the new parliament to make any changes.

The reforms came after the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) complained in April it felt unable to investigate some allegations because they do not meet a high enough standard.

Treasurer Michael O'Brien blamed Labor and independent MP Geoff Shaw for dragging out debates and refusing to debate bills in a timely way.

"We had this legislation in the parliament ready to go. If there was co-operation from the coalition, of the Labor party and Geoff Shaw, it could've been passed. Unfortunately they were unco-operative," he told reporters on Friday.

However, shadow attorney-general Martin Pakula blamed the government for pushing the IBAC bill down its priority list and said the coalition had no intention of passing it.

"It's why they only introduced it with one sitting week to go and it's why they did not bring it on for debate," he told reporters.

"It was second on the notice paper at the start of the week. After the first day, it had been pushed down to number 11."

IBAC is in charge of identifying and preventing serious corruption in the public sector, the judiciary and government.

Labor has pledged to give IBAC more teeth if it wins office by introducing misconduct in public office as an offence and lowering the investigatory threshold.

The government's reforms include giving IBAC power to do preliminary investigations before deciding whether to investigate a complaint and including misconduct in public office as a common law offence constituting corrupt conduct.

The threshold test for IBAC to investigate would also be clarified.