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• Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Table Items) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CORMANN, Sen Mathias;FIELDING, Sen Steve;XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to provide that if an item in the general medical services table is disallowed under the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  , the corresponding item in the previous regulations is taken to apply from the time of disallowance. 

  Bill

• Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Act 2007

  to: broaden the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme to require practices providing non-radiology services, or a combination of radiology and non-radiology services, to obtain accreditation; and provide transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (University College London) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to list University College London as an eligible provider to enable it to offer FEE-HELP assistance to eligible domestic students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to allow patients to take a pathology request to an approved pathology practitioner or authority of their choice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to authorise the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare to delegate functions to support the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HIS); and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: provide that the HIS comes under the jurisdiction of the Privacy Commissioner; and make amendments consequential on the

  Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010, the bill establishes the national e-health Healthcare Identifiers Service to provide that patients, healthcare providers and provider organisations can be consistently identified. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (FEE-HELP Loan Fee) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to increase the loan fee for FEE-HELP for fee paying undergraduate students to 25 per cent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: make amendments consequential on the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority and Private Health Insurance) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to extend the operation of the Pharmacy Location Rules and the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority to 30 June 2015; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  in relation to lifetime health cover and new migrants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Indexation) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  In response to a recommendation of the

  Review of Australian Higher Education

  (the Bradley Review), the bill amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to replace the Safety Net Adjustment wage price index with the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services wage price index published by the Australian Statistician. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum