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• Financial Assistance Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Financial Relations Act 2009

  to increase the general drawing rights limit for the 2008-09 financial year to $1,250,000,000 to enable the Commonwealth to provide general purpose financial assistance to the states; and

  Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act 1995

  to enable the minister to permit a state to receive an entitlement to financial assistance before the end of the financial year to which that assistance relates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Nation-building Funds Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  to redirect $2.5 billion from the Education Investment Fund to the Clean Energy Initiative. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical and Other Benefits—Cost Recovery) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to enable regulations to be made for the cost recovery of services provided by the Commonwealth in relation to the exercise of powers for listing medicines, vaccines and other products or services on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and designation of vaccines for the National Immunisation Program. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to introduce a non-indexed Carer Supplement, payable to carers currently receiving qualifying payments;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to exempt the supplement from income tax; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to remove indexation of higher income thresholds for certain family assistance payments until 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  (other than Schedules relating to registered organisations and transitionally registered associations) and renames it the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  ; provides for the application of the National Employment Standards and minimum wages to all national system employees from 1 January 2010; ensures no reduction in employees’ take home pay results from the transition to a modern award; establishes rules in relation to the treatment of existing instruments; introduces transitional bargaining and agreement-making rules; abolishes the office of Workplace Ombudsman (WO); provides for the limited, continued operation of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, WO, Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and the Australian Industrial Registry and appoints existing full-time AIRC members to Fair Work Australia (FWA); provides that existing investigations and compliance proceedings by the WO will be dealt with by the Fair Work Ombudsman and allows Fair Work Inspectors to exercise new compliance powers in relation to breaches occurring before or after 1 July 2009; gives FWA power to make representation orders in response to union demarcation disputes; establishes rules to enable state-registered organisations to participate in the new federal workplace relations system; and amends the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to create Fair Work Divisions within those courts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  to establish a prudential regulation regime for non-operating holding companies of life insurance companies to be administered by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA); 19 other Acts to make consequential amendments; and the

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  ,

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  First Home Saver Accounts Act 2008

  to provide APRA with power to seek court injunctions against breaches of conditions or directions issued under those Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Monetary Agreements Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Monetary Agreements Act 1947

  to enact any amendments to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Articles of Agreement, including those recently approved by the Boards of Governors, upon their entry into force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to give legislative authority to agreements between Australia and the British Virgin Islands and the Isle of Man, in relation to the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Law and Justice (Cross Border and Other Amendments) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Service and Execution of Process Act 1992

  to: establish the Cross Border Justice Scheme to enable judicial officers, police and other officials to deal with offenders from any of the participating jurisdictions (Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory); and clarify that prisoners may give evidence by audio or video link when subpoenaed to give evidence in interstate court or tribunal proceedings; and

  Evidence and Procedure (New Zealand) Act 1994

  to expand the range of proceedings covered by the scheme established between Australia and New Zealand for the service of subpoenas between the two jurisdictions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Native Title Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Native Title Act 1993

  to: enable the Federal Court to determine whether the court, the National Native Title Tribunal, or another individual/body should mediate native title claims; specify the manner in which mediations are conducted; change powers of the court in relation to agreed statements of fact and consent orders; enable native title proceedings to rely on new evidence rules; vary the operation of representative bodies, including their recognition and removal of transitional arrangements; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum