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• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Vocational Education and Training Funding Act 1992

  to provide funds for vocational education and training in 2005 under the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) agreement; and update the current funding limits for 2004 to reflect the outcome of earlier negotiations with the States and Territories. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Vocational Education and Training Funding Act 1992

  to provide funds for vocational education and training in 2005 under the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) agreement; and update the current funding limits for 2004 to reflect the outcome of earlier negotiations on a new ANTA agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Vocational Education and Training Funding Act 1992

  to: supplement 2003 funding; appropriate general vocational education and training funding for 2004; provide additional growth funding in 2004 for those State and Territories that satisfy the provisions set out in the Australian National Training Authority Agreement for 2004-2006; and provide further funding under the “Australians Working Together” and “Recognising and Improving the Capacity of People with a Disability” programs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Vocational Education and Training Funding Act 1992

  to: supplement 2002 funding; appropriate general vocational education and training funding for 2003; and provide additional growth funding in 2003 for those State and Territories that satisfy the provisions set out in the Australian National Training Authority Agreement for 2001-2003. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jun 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Training and Youth Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• 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

• Venture Capital Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Taxation Laws Amendment (Venture Capital) Bill 2002, the bill establishes a registration and reporting process for venture capital limited partnerships, Australian venture capital funds of funds and eligible venture capital investors, administered by the Pooled Development Funds Registration Board. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Reform) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to: increase the single maximum basic rate of veterans' affairs pensions from 20 September 2009; index veterans' affairs pensions using the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index; index veterans' affairs pensions using a combined couple benchmark; increase veterans' affairs pensions to compensate for anticipated increases in the living cost index arising from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; increase the income test taper rate and remove the additional income test free area for dependent children; introduce a Work Bonus so that certain income is disregarded as ordinary income; close the pension bonus scheme from 20 September 2009; increase the pension age for persons other than veterans from 65 to 67 years; enable certain veterans' affairs pension recipients to apply for an advance of veterans' affairs entitlements;

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  ,

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to consolidate a number of smaller payments and allowances into one pension supplement;

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to allow veterans' affairs pensioners to transition to the new arrangements; and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  in relation to the calculation of total assessable income for residents in aged care. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (International Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: give effect to arrangements for entering into international agreements in relation to the payment of pensions and providing assistance and benefits to eligible persons; authorise the use of funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for those purposes; and align the veterans’ entitlements means test with the social security means test;

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to make minor and technical consequential amendments;

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  to extend the period for which the Commonwealth or Australian Federal Police may be considered as a nuclear test participant for the purposes of the Act; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to make minor amendments in relation to a definition and clarifying compensation matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Entitlements Legislation Amendment (2007 Election Commitments) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend the automatic grant of intermediate and temporary special rate disability pensions to eligible dependants of veterans or members;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to extend eligibility for income support supplements to certain war widows and widowers; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend a tax exempt bereavement payment to the estate of certain single pensioners who die in indigent circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum