Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009

Type: Government
Portfolio: Health and Ageing
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Not Proceeding
Parliament no: 42
Summary: Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty.

Progress

House of Representatives
17 Sep 2009	Introduced and read a first time
17 Sep 2009	Second reading moved
21 Oct 2009	Referred to Main Committee
26 Oct 2009	Second reading debate
27 Oct 2009	Second reading agreed to
16 Nov 2009	Third reading agreed to

Senate
17 Nov 2009	Introduced and read a first time
17 Nov 2009	Second reading moved
23 Nov 2009	Second reading debate
23 Nov 2009	Second reading agreed to
23 Nov 2009	Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 8 Opposition (1 as amended) and 2 Opposition/Family First Party/Independent (Xenophon) agreed to
23 Nov 2009	Third reading agreed to

House of Representatives
24 Nov 2009	Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendments 2 to 9 and disagreed to Senate amendments 1 and 10

Senate
26 Nov 2009	Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate insisted on its amendments nos 1 and 10

House of Representatives
26 Nov 2009	Message from Senate reported
24 Feb 2010	Consideration of Senate message Details: House insisted on disagreeing to amendments 1 and 10, and made an amendment

Senate
25 Feb 2010	Message from House of Reps reported
28 Sep 2010	Lapsed at end of Parliament

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Explanatory memoranda

Correction to explanatory memorandum
Explanatory memorandum
Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate
Australian Greens [sheet 5963] SIEWERT, Sen Rachel
Family First Party [sheet 5975] FIELDING, Sen Steve
Opposition [sheet 5987] SCULLION, Sen Nigel
Opposition/Family First Party/Independent [sheet 5956 revised] CORMANN, Sen Mathias;FIELDING, Sen Steve;XENOPHON, Sen Nick
Opposition/Family First Party/Independent [sheet 5956] XENOPHON, Sen Nick

House of Representatives
Government [sheet AT226]

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate to which the House of Representatives has disagreed
Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Committee Information

No documents at present

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Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
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Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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