Farm Household Support Amendment (Additional Drought Assistance Measures) Bill 2008

Type: Government
Portfolio: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 42
Summary: Amends the:
Farm Household Support Act 1992
  and
Social Security Act 1991
  to: increase the maximum allowable income exemption for the Exceptional Circumstances Relief Payment (ECRP); and extend the ECRP to more agriculture-dependent small business operators; and
Farm Household Support Act 1992
  to enable ECRP recipients to continue to receive payments while temporarily absent from Australia for specific family or humanitarian reasons.

Progress

House of Representatives
29 May 2008	Introduced and read a first time
29 May 2008	Second reading moved
03 Jun 2008	Second reading debate
03 Jun 2008	Second reading agreed to
03 Jun 2008	Third reading agreed to

Senate
16 Jun 2008	Introduced and read a first time
16 Jun 2008	Second reading moved
19 Jun 2008	Second reading debate
19 Jun 2008	Second reading agreed to
19 Jun 2008	Third reading agreed to

24 Jun 2008

Assent

Act no.: 39

Year: 2008

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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Committee Information

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Explanatory memoranda

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Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
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