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• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: require registered political parties and disclosure entities to use their current registered name in authorisations for electoral communications; and allow registered political parties certain limited flexibility in how their present their names in an authorisation; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  ,

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation, while retaining current authorisation requirements in relation to specified printed materials. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to allow regulations to be made to temporarily expand the existing secure telephone voting method, currently available to sight impaired persons and Australians working in Antarctica, to coronavirus affected individuals for a limited time window. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: prohibit foreign persons and entities from authorising electoral communications and from fundraising or directly incurring electoral expenditure in a financial year equal to or more than $1000; and make technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to increase the penalty for the offence of misleading or deceiving an elector in relation to the casting of a vote. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Workplace Reform (Set the Standard Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the

  Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces

  by amending the:

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  (MoP(S) Act) to: require a notice of termination of employment to specify the ground or grounds that are relied on for the termination; and clarify that the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  apply to staff employed or engaged under the MoP(S) Act;

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to clarify that parliamentarians are officers of the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Act; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  and

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  to clarify that staff employed or engaged under the MoP(S) Act are Commonwealth employees for the purposes of the Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Cyclone and Flood Damage Reinsurance Pool) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Terrorism Insurance Act 2003

  to: establish a framework for a cyclone and cyclone-related flood damage reinsurance pool by extending the operation of the terrorism reinsurance scheme administered by the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC); and amend the title of the Act to the

  Terrorism and Cyclone Insurance Act 2003

  ; and

  Insurance Act 1973

  to create a civil penalty for insurers who do not reinsure eligible cyclone risks with the ARPC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: apply indexation to existing appropriation amounts for the financial years commencing on 1 July 2021, 1 July 2022 and 1 July 2023; and insert a new funding cap for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2024. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Loans Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to: introduce a no negative equity guarantee to the pension loans scheme; and enable participants to access an advance of their entitlement to regular pension loans scheme payments; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to establish a corporate collective investment vehicle (CCIV) as a new type of a company limited by shares that is used for funds management; the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: specify the tax treatment for the CCIV regime; make amendments consequential on the commencement of the

  Commonwealth Registers Act 2020

  ; update the list of deductible gift recipients; and remove cessation of employment as a taxing point for employee share scheme interests which are subject to deferred taxation; the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to clarify that the priority rule is subject to the deeming principle; the

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  ,

  A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments in relation to the CCIV regime; the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable eligible corporate tax entities to claim a loss carry back tax offset in the 2022-23 financial year; 10 Acts and one determination in the Treasury portfolio to make miscellaneous and technical amendments; and the

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to insert a new covenant that requires trustees of registrable superannuation entities to develop a retirement income strategy for beneficiaries who are retired or are approaching retirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Annual Disclosure Equality) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: extend the application of the foreign donations framework to current sitting members of the House of Representatives and Senators; require members of the House of Representatives and Senators who receive gifts for the purpose of incurring electoral expenditure or creating or communicating electoral matter to lodge an annual return with the Australian Electoral Commission; and extend the period for which a person is taken to be a candidate by an additional six months for the purpose of the disclosure period for candidate and Senate group returns and for restrictions on receiving foreign donations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Security Legislation Amendment (Comprehensive Review and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: enable the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) to undertake activities to produce intelligence where there is, or is likely to be, an imminent risk to the safety of an Australian person; enable ASIS, ASD and AGO to seek ministerial authorisation to produce intelligence on a class of Australian persons who are, or are likely to be, involved with a listed terrorist organisation; enable ASD and AGO to seek ministerial authorisation to undertake activities to produce intelligence on an Australian person, or class of persons, where they are assisting the Australian Defence Force in support of military operations; amend the requirement for ASIS, ASD and AGO to obtain ministerial authorisation to produce intelligence on an Australian person to circumstances where the agencies seek to use covert and intrusive methods which include methods for which the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) would require a warrant to conduct inside Australia; clarify the requirement for ASIS, ASD and AGO to seek ministerial authorisation before requesting a foreign partner agency to produce intelligence on an Australian person; remove the geographic limit requiring that ASIS activities undertaken to support ASIO in the performance of its functions be conducted outside Australia; provide that, for the purposes of carrying out its non-intelligence functions, AGO is not required to seek ministerial approval for cooperation with authorities of other countries; clarify the meaning of authorities of other countries; and make technical amendments;

  Office of National Intelligence Act 2018

  to require the Office of National Intelligence to obtain Director-General approval when undertaking cooperation with public international organisations;

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  and

  Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005

  to extend the period for passport suspension and foreign travel document surrender from 14 to 28 days;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to extend immunity provided to staff of ASIS and AGO for computer-related acts done outside Australia to acts which inadvertently affected a computer or device located outside Australia;

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  and

  Office of National Intelligence Act 2018

  in relation to privacy rules of ASIS, ASD, AGO and Defence Intelligence Organisation;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to allow ASD to participate in the assumed identities scheme; and

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: approve a class of persons to exercise the authority conferred by an ASIO warrant; clarify the permissible scope of classes; and introduce certain record-keeping requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum