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• 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

• Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011

  to: specify thematic categories of conduct to which autonomous sanctions can be applied; clarify that autonomous sanctions regimes established under the regulations can be either country-specific or thematic; and specify decision-making processes for imposing targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on person and entities under thematic sanctions regimes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Assurance of Senate Counting) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: respond to a recommendation of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report on the conduct of the 2016 federal election and matters related thereto

  by requiring the Electoral Commissioner to implement certain processes to assure the security and accuracy of the computer systems (including the systems for scanning ballot papers and counting votes) used to scrutinise votes for a Senate election; clarify the process for resolving candidate ties; clarify that the 'bulk exclusion' process is not required to be used in the computerised scrutiny process; allow a scrutineer to request access to an original ballot paper to resolve a question about formality or a preference vote being counted in the scrutiny of a Senate election; and require the Electoral Commissioner to publish Senate election data for each formal ballot case in the election within 7 days of the return of the writ for a Senate election. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Contingency Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: implement certain recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report of the inquiry on the future conduct of elections operating during times of emergency situations

  by enabling the Electoral Commissioner to make limited operational modifications by legislative instrument where an emergency declaration has been issued under a Commonwealth law and moving the existing power to adjourn or suspend polling at a polling place or pre-poll voting office from local polling booth presiding officers to the Electoral Commissioner; delay the commencement of the scrutiny for a House of Representatives election for a Division where polling has been adjourned or temporarily suspended; prevent scrutineers and Australian Electoral Commission officers from disclosing the results of a Senate election in a Division where polling has been adjourned; and make minor amendments in relation to the cut-off date for postal vote applications and the format of postal vote certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  National Disability Insurance Scheme 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the 2019 review of the

  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

  (the Tune review) by amending the: National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 to establish the Participant Service Guarantee to provide timeframes and engagement principles for how the National Disability Insurance Agency undertakes key administrative processes; enable participant’s plans to be varied without requiring a full plan review; amend the objects and principles of the Act; clarify the eligibility criteria for people with psychosocial disability; streamline certain administrative processes for participants; provide clarity in relation to decisions about plan management requests and extend the risk assessment process for self-management of funding to those using registered plan management providers; enable the National Disability Insurance Agency to make direct payments on behalf of participants; and remove redundant provisions and make technical amendments; and

  DisabilityCare Australia Fund Act 2013

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Enhancing the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to: provide for price reductions on the fifth, tenth and fifteenth anniversary of a drug listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and when the first new brand of a drug lists on the PBS; retain ministerial discretion to ensure that the minister can intervene if a legislated price reduction were to have an unintended consequence; and establish a price reduction floor, and stockholding requirements, for certain PBS listed brands that may be susceptible to global medicines shortages; and

  National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits—Budget and Other Measures) Act 2018

  to remove redundant provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Funders of Last Resort and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Provides a further response to the final report of the second year review of the National Redress Scheme by amending the

  National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018

  to: extend the funder of last resort arrangements to encompass non-defunct institutions that are unable to participate in the scheme, and defunct institutions with which participating jurisdictions do not share responsibility for abuse and there is no parent institution to take responsibility; and provide the scheme operator with specific authority to disclose certain protected information about non-participating institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum