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• Interactive Gambling Amendment (National Self-exclusion Register) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  ,

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to establish a National Self-exclusion Register to allow individuals to exclude themselves from being provided interactive wagering services by all licensed interactive wagering service providers in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Interactive Gambling Amendment (National Self-exclusion Register) Bill 2019, the bill imposes a levy on persons who provide licensed interactive wagering services to allow the Australian Communications and Media Authority to recover the costs associated with the regulation of the National Self-exclusion Register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Work Test) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: enable the paid parental leave work test period for a pregnant woman in an unsafe job to be moved from the 13-month period prior to the birth of her child to the 13-month period before she had to cease work due to the hazards connected with her employment and the subsequent risk to her pregnancy; and extend the permissible break in the paid parental leave work test to enable parents to have a gap of up to 12 weeks between two working days and still meet the work test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to extend family tax benefit eligibility to families of ABSTUDY secondary school students who are aged 16 years or over and are required to live away from home to attend school. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that the Secretary of the Department of Social Services is the decision maker for all cashless debit card exit applications; broaden the criteria for the exit provisions to enable the secretary to take into account a person’s ability to manage their affairs generally, including their financial affairs; clarify that exit applications need to be made in a form that is approved by the secretary; and expand the wellbeing exemption provisions so that they apply more broadly across all regions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Overseas Welfare Recipients Integrity Program) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to require certain welfare recipients aged 80 years and over, who have been absent from Australia for at least two years, to provide a proof of life certificate at least once every two years in accordance with a notice sent by the Secretary; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to repeal certain provisions as a consequence of the cessation of Widow B Pension and Wife Pension from 20 March 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide a one-off energy assistance payment to recipients of the age pension, disability support pension, carer payment, farm household allowance, parenting payment, austudy, ABSTUDY Living Allowance, double orphan pension, newstart allowance, partner allowance, sickness allowance, special benefit, widow allowance, widow pension B, wife pension and youth allowance, and recipients of certain veterans’ payments, who are payable and residing in Australia on 2 April 2019; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide that the energy assistance payment is exempt from income tax. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to extend the cashless debit card trial in three sites, and the income management program in Cape York, to 30 June 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Student Reform) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the parental income cut-off for students accessing the regional workforce independence criteria from $150 000 to $160 000, plus $10 000 for each additional child in the family; and amend the formula for determining the maintenance income test reducible amount;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to ensure the consistent application of the maintenance income test reconciliation process for youth allowance; and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to enable the minister to determine that a course, that is no longer an eligible course, is to be treated as an eligible course for specified persons in specified circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: expand the cashless debit card arrangements to a further trial site, the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay area, to run until 30 June 2020; specify the class of trial participants for the area and increase the total number of trial participants overall to 15 000; provide for an exception from the restrictive trade practices provisions of the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  for merchants that implement product level blocking systems to identify that a cashless debit card is being used for payment and, if any restricted products are being purchased, decline the transaction; and limit the use of the restricted portion of a payment to prevent the portion being used to obtain cash-like products which could be used to obtain alcohol or gambling. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum