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• COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management 

  Summary

  The bill: appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purposes of making COVID-19 disaster payments in the 2021-22 financial year; and requires the Coordinator-General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRAA) to include information in the NRRA’s annual report that relates to COVID-19 disaster payments made in the 2021-22 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: extend the free rate of customs duty for certain medical and hygiene products from 31 December 2020 to 30 June 2021; and provide for a free rate of customs duty for goods for use in the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program and for prescribed motor vehicles and motor vehicle components for research and development activities by automotive service providers previously registered under the Automotive Transformation Scheme and where the time for working out duty is between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2025. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sport 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection Act 2014

  to: prevent the unauthorised commercial use of certain indicia and images associated with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup Australia New Zealand 2023 and the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022; and remove the Schedule relating to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games; and

  Sport Integrity Australia Act 2020

  to correct an erroneous reference to an article of the World Anti-Doping Code in the definition of 'ineligibility'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Decisions under the Continence Aids Payment Scheme) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to provide that the legislative instrument establishing the Continence Aids Payment Scheme may provide that applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions made under the instrument. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (COVID-19 Economic Response) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to extend the concessional tax treatment of payments received during the 2021-22 financial year by eligible businesses under eligible COVID-19 recovery grant programs administered by a state or territory government or authority; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable tax information to be disclosed to Services Australia for the purposes of administering the COVID-19 disaster payment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Debt Waiver) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to waive the repayment of certain classes of debts for farm household allowance (FHA) recipients arising from the business income reconciliation process for FHA payments between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 1) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to insert a definition of 'restrictive practice' and provide for the Quality of Care Principles to specify certain requirements in relation to the use of a restrictive practice; enable the secretary to conduct home care assurance reviews; and remove the requirement for the Minister for Aged Care to establish a committee known as the Aged Care Financing Authority; and

  Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018

  to expand the powers of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner to include the ability to issue a written notice if an approved provider does not comply with their responsibilities and to apply for a civil penalty order against a provider if they do not comply with the written notice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  to ensure that claims made against midwives in private practice whose registration is not endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia to prescribe scheduled medicines are eligible under the Allied Health Schemes, where the claim relates to incidents that occurred on or from 1 July 2020; and

  Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010

  to expand eligibility of the Midwifes Schemes to cover claims made against midwives in private practice whose registration has been endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia to prescribe schedule medicines, irrespective of whether the midwife is covered under a professional indemnity insurance policy as an employee or in an independent capacity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: create a single set of employment pathway plan requirement provisions, which will allow better use of technology, enabling job seekers more choice about how they enter into an employment pathway plan and meet the requirements of that plan; repeal certain redundant and outdated 'activity test' provisions; create a single set of criteria for exemptions from mutual obligation requirements; provide legislative authority for expenditure on employment programs; and repeal certain redundant provisions;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to make consequential amendments;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to amend the targeted compliance framework to provide that sanctions need not be imposed when recipients of participation payments have a valid reason for failing to meet their requirements or immediately re-engage;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: allow payments or benefits from Commonwealth and state and territory employment programs to not be considered income for social security law purposes; provide that the declaration of an approved program of work for income support payment is by legislative instrument; consolidate certain provisions in relation to activities that do not give rise to employment under certain industrial relations legislation; clarify that those receiving youth allowance as a job seeker continue to be treated as such when undertaking study as part of their requirements; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018

  ; and

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to align the start day provisions for certain job seekers claiming jobseeker payment or youth allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Portability Extensions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014

  to include a discretionary power to grant portability extensions to pensioners who are temporarily away from their country of residence and unable to return home within 26 weeks for reasons such as serious illness, death of a family member, natural disaster or public health crisis. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum