A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
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- Date
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13 Aug 2015
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Amends the:
Banking Act 1959
and Life Insurance Act 1995
to: extend to seven years the period before funds held by authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADI) and life insurance providers are treated as unclaimed moneys; and provide only authorised access to information on unclaimed moneys; Banking Act 1959
to: exempt ADI accounts created for children and those that are held in a foreign currency from the unclaimed money provisions; remove the requirement for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission to publish details of unclaimed moneys in the Unclaimed Moneys Gazette; and expand the circumstances in which account holders can keep their ADI accounts active; and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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27 Nov 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture
- Summary
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Part of a package of five bills to provide for a regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the
Quarantine Act 1908
), the bill: repeals the Quarantine Act 1908
and Quarantine Charges (Collection) Act 2014
; makes consequential amendments to 20 Acts to update references to managing biosecurity risk under the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
, and substitute references to Quarantine Act 1908
with the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
; and makes transitional arrangements in relation to the management of biosecurity risks from the Quarantine Act 1908
to the new biosecurity framework under the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
.
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- Date
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27 Nov 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture
- Summary
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Part of a package of five bills to provide for a regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the Quarantine Act 1908) to: manage biosecurity risks, the risk of contagion of a listed human disease, the risk of listed human diseases entering Australian territory, risks related to ballast water, biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies; and give effect to Australia’s international rights and obligations, including the International Health Regulations 2005, the World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992.
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- Date
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22 Oct 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications
- Summary
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Amends the:
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: remove certain requirements that related to the initial planning of services in the broadcasting services bands spectrum; remove the requirement for reports made by certain subscription television licensees and channel providers under the New Eligible Drama Expenditure Scheme to be independently audited; remove the requirement for codes of practice to be periodically reviewed; remove the requirement for certain licensees to provide an annual list of their directors; clarify the calculation of media diversity points in overlapping licence areas; provide for grandfathering arrangements for certain broadcasting licensees; and make technical amendments for references to legislative instruments; Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
, Broadcasting Services Act 1992
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to remove redundant licensing and planning provisions that regulated the digital switchover and restack processes; and Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
, Radiocommunications Act 1992
and Datacasting Charge (Imposition) Act 1998
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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22 Oct 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Industry
- Summary
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Amends the
Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010
to: allow building owners who receive unsolicited offers for the sale or lease of their office space and transactions between wholly-owned subsidiaries to be excluded from energy efficiency disclosure obligations; enable certain auditing authorities to directly provide or approve ratings used in Building Energy Efficiency Certificates (BEEC); enable businesses to nominate a commencement date for a BEEC which is later than the date of issue; remove the need for new owners and lessors to reapply or pay the application fee for fresh exemptions if there is an existing one in place for a building; and remove the standard energy efficiency guidance from each BEEC.
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- Date
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05 Jun 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Social Services
- Summary
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Introduced with the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Bill 2014, the bill amends the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
, Social Security Act 1991
, Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme.
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- Date
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05 Jun 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Social Services
- Summary
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Introduced with the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014, the bill responds to the Federal Court’s decision in
Nojin v Commonwealth of Australia
[2012] FCAFC 192 by establishing a payment scheme for supported employees with intellectual impairment in Australian Disability Enterprises who previously had their wages assessed under the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool.
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- Date
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29 May 2013
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Amends the
Banking Act 1959
to: exempt reactivated accounts from being reported and transferred to the Commonwealth as unclaimed moneys; and allow the Treasurer to refund moneys to authorised deposit-taking institutions that are collected unnecessarily.
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- Date
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14 Mar 2013
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Part of a package of six bills in relation to the media sector, the bill amends the:
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: provide that no additional commercial television broadcasting licences will be made available to enable a fourth commercial television network; impose an Australian content transmission quota on commercial television broadcasting licensees; enable Australian content sub-quotas to be satisfied by any transmission by a licensee; provide that one hour of a first release Australian drama program counts as two hours for the purposes of a transmission quota; enable the minister to direct the Australian Communications and Media Authority in relation to its program standards making powers; and remove the requirement for a review of content and captioning rules applicable to multi-channelled television broadcasting services; Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
to: include digital media services in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) charter; prohibit certain advertising on the ABC’s digital media services; and provide that the ABC or its prescribed companies are the only providers of Commonwealth-funded international broadcasting services; and Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991
to: require the minister to have regard to the need to ensure that at least one of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) non-executive directors is an Indigenous person; and include digital media services in SBS’s charter.
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- Date
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13 Feb 2013
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the:
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: provide that a designated datacasting service is a datacasting service provided by a commercial television broadcasting licensee, a commercial radio broadcasting licensee or a national broadcaster, or is of a kind specified by the minister; and generally require that providers of designated datacasting services hold datacasting licences; Radiocommunications Act 1992
to require the minister to direct the Australian Communications and Media Authority to review and report on the provision of spectrum for low interference potential device class licenses and provide a transition pathway for such licences by 30 July 2013; and Broadcasting Services Act 1992
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to make consequential amendments.
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