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• Higher Education Endowment Fund Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes the Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF) to generate earnings for capital expenditure and research facilities in higher education institutions; grants the Treasurer and Finance Minister the power to credit cash amounts to the HEEF; grants the Future Fund Board of Guardians (the Board) statutory responsibility for managing the investments of the HEEF; expands the Future Fund Management Agency’s operational activities to provide executive support to the Board and be responsible for the operational activities associated with the investment of the HEEF; requires responsible ministers to issue an Investment Mandate to the Board regarding the investment of the HEEF and determine rules for the maximum level of payments from the HEEF; and establishes the Higher Education Endowment Fund Advisory Board to advise the Education Minister on matters related to the making of grants to eligible higher education institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Endowment Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education Endowment Fund Bill 2007, the bill amends the

  Future Fund Act 2006

  to extend the Future Fund Board’s functions in relation to the Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF); and the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make gifts of money to the HEEF tax deductible. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Legislation Amendment (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection) Bill 2020 to expand the Tuition Protection Service to include domestic up-front fee paying higher education students, the bill imposes the up-front payments tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by providers and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010, the bill establishes the national e-health Healthcare Identifiers Service to provide that patients, healthcare providers and provider organisations can be consistently identified. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to authorise the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare to delegate functions to support the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HIS); and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: provide that the HIS comes under the jurisdiction of the Privacy Commissioner; and make amendments consequential on the

  Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Establishes Health Workforce Australia as an independent statutory body to implement Council of Australian Governments (COAG) health workforce initiatives agreed to in November 2008 including funding, planning and coordinating clinical training, supporting clinical training supervision and health workforce research and planning, funding simulation training, and providing advice to Health Ministers. Also contains a regulation making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia (Abolition) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Health Workforce Australia Act 2009

  to abolish Health Workforce Australia; and provides for transitional arrangements, including the transfer of assets, liabilities, interests in land, records and instruments to the Commonwealth, and the transfer of functions and programs to the Department of Health. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: make amendments consequential on the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to correct a broad offence provision relating to ‘complying health insurance policy’; and the

  National Health Act 1953

  in relation to pharmacists substituting items under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Also makes consequential amendments as a result of the new regulatory framework imposed by the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: extend, until 30 June 2006, the existing arrangements for approving pharmacists to supply medicines subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; clarify that dependants of contributors to a health benefits fund with appropriate cover, as well as the contributors, are covered by the fund;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: clarify the scope of the power to make Medicare Tables; and enable the Minister to make legislative instruments determining that Medicare benefits are not payable for professional services in specified circumstances; and

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  to replace references to the Health Insurance Commission with references to the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum