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• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: create a new criminal offence of providing or advertising an academic cheating service on a commercial basis; and broaden the role of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency to include the prevention and minimisation of the use and promotion of academic cheating services in courses provided by higher education providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Amendment (Testing and Training) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to: introduce powers for aviation security inspectors to conduct covert compliance testing of aviation industry participants' aviation security systems at all regulated locations; provide certain exemptions for aviation security inspectors from civil or criminal liability when they are covertly testing aviation industry participants' aviation security systems; and

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: require screening officers to have completed relevant training and to hold relevant qualifications prior to exercising powers or performing screening functions; allow for the making of legislative instruments to determine training, qualifications and other requirements for specified screening officers in the exercise of powers or performance of screening functions, and requirements relating to the use of identity cards and uniforms; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill: amends 12 Acts to bring 35 existing business registers into the new regime; and

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to introduce a director identification number requirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019, the bill establishes an ongoing funding arrangement for fixed wireless and satellite infrastructure (the Regional Broadband Scheme) by imposing a monthly charge on carriers, including NBN Co Ltd, in relation to each premises connected to their network that has an active fixed-line superfast broadband service during the month. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019, the bill amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  in relation to: Layer 2 bitstream services; and statutory infrastructure providers;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and two legislative instruments in relation to local access lines;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  in relation to funding of fixed wireless broadband and satellite broadband; and

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to require NBN Co to provide certain data about premises connected, or due to be connected, to the NBN. Also repeals four declarations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Support Loans Amendment (Improving Administration) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  to: enable the secretary to provide for offsetting arrangements where an amount is wrongly paid as an instalment of a trade support loan (TSL); provide the secretary with a discretion to extend the period for notifying a change of address; and align the minimum periods for TSL recipients to notify the secretary of information under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Superannuation, Your Choice) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to provide that employees under workplace determinations or enterprise agreements have the right to choose their superannuation fund. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Amendment (Serious Crime) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: prevent the use of aviation and maritime transport or offshore facilities in connection with serious crime; establish a regulatory framework to implement harmonised eligibility criteria for the aviation security identification card (ASIC) and maritime security identification card (MSIC) schemes; clarify and align the legislative basis for undertaking security checking of ASIC and MSIC applicants and holders; provide for regulations to prescribe penalties for offences; and insert an additional severability provision to provide guidance to a court as to Parliament’s intention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Near-new Dwelling Interests) Bill 2019, the bill amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: remove the entitlement to the capital gains tax (CGT) main residence exemption for foreign residents; and clarify that, for the purpose of determining whether an entity’s underlying value is principally derived from taxable Australian real property under the foreign resident CGT regime, the principal asset test is applied on an associate inclusive basis;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to provide for transitional arrangements in relation to the main residence exemption;

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to require a reconciliation payment to be made by developers who sell dwellings to foreign persons under a near-new dwelling exemption certificate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide an additional affordable housing capital gains discount of up to 10 per cent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Assistance and Access Amendments Review) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to defer to 30 September 2020 the legislative deadline for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to report on its third review of the operation of the amendments introduced by the

  Telecommunications and Other Legislation (Assistance and Access) Act 2018

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum