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• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Training and Youth Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to authorise the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to deduct an overpayment of a service pension, income support supplement or social security pension from a specified payment paid to the surviving partner, where the partner had the benefit of that overpayment and the overpayment was due to the death of the deceased. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: create a prisoner of war recognition supplement; and clarify when compensation offsetting applies;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to abolish the temporary incapacity allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Income Support Measures) Bill 2010

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  Date

  10 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: remove redundant references and provisions relating to ‘benevolent homes’; exempt from the veterans’ entitlements exemption test payments associated with expenses for part-time work experience under a labour market program; require partners of persons claiming or receiving a service pension or income support to claim a comparable foreign pension; provide that arrears payments of comparable foreign pensions are treated as periodic payments; and clarify that the value of certain superannuation investments are not disregarded for the purposes of deemed income rules and asset deprivation rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010

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  Date

  21 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide for weekly payments of certain periodic payments to persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 2) Bill 2018

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  Date

  24 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to provide former members of the Australian Defence Force with incapacity payments at 100 per cent of their normal weekly earnings where they are studying full time as part of their approved rehabilitation plan;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: create a Veteran Suicide Prevention pilot aimed at providing coordinated care to veterans who have attempted suicide, have suicide ideation or are in crisis; deem a submariner’s service on a submarine on a special submarine operation between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 1992 as operational service; and extend eligibility for the Long Tan Bursary scheme to the grandchildren of a veteran who has operational service in Vietnam; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to: allow a wholly dependent partner up to 2 years to decide whether to take a lump sum, a pension or a combination of both as compensation for their partner’s death; and enable veterans to lodge a claim for compensation orally. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 1) Bill 2018

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  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to: provide additional support, including childcare arrangements, brief intervention counselling, and additional household services and attendant care, to families and members and former members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) who have rendered warlike service, post 1 July 2004; and enable the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to specify conditions and compensation for household and attendant care services for ADF members who have sustained a catastrophic injury or disease;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to create a Veteran Payment to provide certain veterans with early access to financial support prior to a claim for a mental health condition being determined; enable the automation of a qualifying service determination; update references to the Specialist Medical Review Council; and make technical amendments;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to create a Coordinated Veterans’ Care mental health pilot to provide mental health support for veterans in rural and regional areas;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to make technical amendments in relation to defence-related claims; and

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006

  to extend the gold card eligibility for those members of the ADF who served in Japan prior to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. Also makes consequential amendments to 16 Acts and contingent amendments to three Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Supporting the Wellbeing of Veterans and Their Families) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to create a new position on the Repatriation Commission and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to represent the families of veterans;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to enable the provision of assistance or benefits to former Australian Defence Force members to assist them to transition into civilian work; and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend eligibility for the quarterly energy supplement to holders of gold cards under the

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006

  and

  Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Partner Service Pension and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Aug 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to: extend eligibility for the partner service pension to former partners of veterans, regardless of marital status, for 12 months after separation from the veteran partner or indefinitely where specified circumstances exist (or until they enter into a new relationship); and reclassify service on submarine special operations between 1 January 1993 and 12 May 1997 as operational and qualifying service; and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  and

  Defence Services Homes Act 1918

  to amend certain definitions to ensure consistency with changes to the definition of marriage. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in British Nuclear Tests) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to enable the Repatriation Commission to determine, by legislative instrument, that Australian personnel involved in the maintenance, transporting or decontamination of aircraft used in the British nuclear test program are eligible for compensation and health care under the Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum