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• Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Providers) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to: clarify that students cannot access VET FEE-HELP assistance to undertake a vocational education and training (VET) unit of study that is not essential to the student’s course; ensure that the minister can revoke the approval of a VET provider of a body corporate that does not meet certain requirements; and allow higher education and VET provider notices of approval to take effect the day following registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Establishes Health Workforce Australia as an independent statutory body to implement Council of Australian Governments (COAG) health workforce initiatives agreed to in November 2008 including funding, planning and coordinating clinical training, supporting clinical training supervision and health workforce research and planning, funding simulation training, and providing advice to Health Ministers. Also contains a regulation making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable the minister to determine, by legislative instrument, the maximum increase of benefit payable under the Extended Medicare Safety Net for specified Medicare Benefits Schedule items. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: revise the maximum funding amounts for the Commonwealth Grant Scheme, Other Grants, and Commonwealth Scholarships; include a funding cluster for education and provide increased funding for all clusters; increase the maximum additional funding certain eligible higher education providers can receive; vary the purposes for which Other Grants may be made and eligibility for those grants; change maximum student contribution amounts for certain students; remove the OS-HELP loan fee from 2010; and apply new indexation arrangements to maximum student contribution amounts in 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  National Health Act 1953

  to: enable nurse practitioners and appropriately qualified and experienced midwives to request appropriate diagnostic imaging and pathology services for which Medicare benefits may be paid; and allow these health professionals to prescribe certain medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  ,

  Medicare Australia Act 1973

  and

  National Health Act 1953

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP assistance schemes by: removing the need for certain organisations to have tuition assurance arrangements when applying for approval to offer assistance; and allowing recommendations from certain agencies to be used as part of the assessment and approval of training organisations to deliver assistance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to: allow higher education providers to impose an annual capped compulsory student services and amenities fee of $250 from 1 July 2009; establish the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP): Services and Amenities-HELP (SA-HELP) to enable eligible students to access a loan for the fee; and require higher education providers that receive funding for student places under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme to implement National Access to Services Benchmarks. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Tertiary Admission Centres) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: broaden the guidelines-making powers to vary the VET FEE-HELP debt; allow different requirements to apply to different students undertaking VET units of study; and provide that officers of Tertiary Admission Centres have the same status and duty of care as those of higher education providers in relation to processing student information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (New Zealand Overseas Trained Doctors) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable certain New Zealand permanent resident and citizen doctors to provide professional services that attract Medicare benefits without being subject to a ten year waiting period (the ‘moratorium’ period); remove the requirement for overseas trained doctors to have both Australian permanent residency or citizenship and medical registration before the moratorium period commences; and provide for a 90 day period in which medical practitioners can appeal against a refusal for an exemption from the moratorium period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum