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• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Medical Device and Human Tissue Product List and Cost Recovery) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022, the bill amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: align relevant definitions of medical devices and human tissue products with the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  ; rename the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (No. 3) 2022 as the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules; and enable the minister to establish fee for service cost recovery arrangements. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Private Health Insurance (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Medical Device and Human Tissue Product List and Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022, the bill amends the

  Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Act 2007

  to: amend the long title of the Act; provide for a cost recovery levy on each kind of medical device and human tissue product on the Prescribed List of Benefits for Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products; allow regulations and rules to provide for matters in relation to the levy; and rename the legislative instrument for medical devices and human tissue products that may be made under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Medical Device and Human Tissue Product List and Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2022, the bill amends the

  Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009

  to: update references to the renamed Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules; and amend an incorrect reference to a ministerial determination. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to disclose information to a non-corporate Commonwealth entity that is responsible for enforcing one or more laws of the Commonwealth;

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  to allow the Australian information Commissioner to delegate certain functions or powers; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: expand the Australian Information Commissioner's enforcement and information sharing powers; and increase penalties for serious or repeated interferences with privacy. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to increase the rate of the passenger movement charge from $60 to $70 from 1 July 2024. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s

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

  by establishing the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory agency to provide human resources and certain other services for parliamentarians and persons employed under the

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  . Also establishes the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Advisory Board and the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Consultative Committee. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Archives Act 1983

  ,

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and

  Parliamentary Service Determination 2013

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (More Support for Working Families) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: increase the maximum period of flexible paid parental leave by 2 weeks each year from 1 July 2024 to 26 weeks from 1 July 2026; increase the reserved period for partnered claimants by one week each year from 1 July 2025 to 4 weeks from 1 July 2026; increase the number of days that can be taken concurrently by multiple claimants to 4 weeks by 1 July 2025; and make minor and technical amendments relating to eligibility for parental leave pay in exceptional circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: extend paid parental leave (PPL) pay from 18 weeks to 20 weeks from 1 July 2023, with two weeks reserved on a 'use it or lose' basis for each claimant; remove the notion of primary, secondary and tertiary claimants and the requirement that the primary claimants of parental leave pay must be the birth parent; make paid parental leave consist only of flexible PPL days and remove the requirement to not return to work in order to be eligible; introduce a $350,000 family income limit under which families can be assessed if they do not meet the individual income test; and allow an eligible father or partner to receive parental leave pay regardless of whether the birth parent meets the income test, residency requirements or is serving a newly arrived resident's waiting period. Also makes consequential amendments to eight Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Reform (Closing the Hole in the Ozone Layer) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2022 and Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2022, the bill amends the

  Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989

  in relation to the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Program by: imposing controls that are currently imposed through licence conditions, such as the ban on import of bulk gas in non-refillable containers; clarifying licence and exemptions requirements; increasing the time allowed for submitting reports and payment levies; adopting the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  , including certain minor modifications; updating the offence and civil penalty provisions; introducing information gathering powers including the ability to issue a notice to produce; providing the option of licence suspension as an alternative to immediate cancellation of financial penalties; providing for an internal review mechanism for reviewable decisions; and allowing the use or disclosure of certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum