Bills Search Results

Search all bills

Keyword(s)

Help icon Using the Bill Introduced date fields will allow you to search bills by the date they were introduced into Parliament.
Clicking the 'Bill Introduced (From)' and 'Bill Introduced (To)' fields displays a calendar.
Alternatively select date by typing into these fields in the format 'dd/mm/yyyy'.

Help icon Using the Bill Progress date fields will allow you to search bills by the dates they progressed through Parliament.
Clicking the 'Bill Progress (From)' and 'Bill Progress (To)' fields displays a calendar.
Alternatively select date by typing into these fields in the format 'dd/mm/yyyy'.

Status
Current Bills
Previous Bills
Type

TOTAL RESULTS: 55

Sort

  • Broadcasting Services Amendment (Improved Access to Television Services) Bill 2012

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    30 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    in relation to the provision of captioning services by commercial, national and subscription television broadcasters by: introducing and increasing captioning targets; requiring the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop a captioning standard to determine the quality of captioning services; requiring broadcasters to transmit emergency warnings in the form of text and speech, and captioned where possible; introducing compliance reporting and record keeping requirements; providing for a statutory review by the ACMA; and making compliance with the captioning requirements a licensing condition. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    24 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Services Amendment (Review of Future Uses of Broadcasting Services Bands Spectrum) Bill 2011

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    02 Nov 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    to: extend from 1 January 2012 to 1 January 2013 the review relating to the allocation of one or more additional commercial television broadcast licences (“the sixth channel review”); and expand the scope of this and any subsequent review. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Dividend and Other Measures) Bill 2011

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    24 Feb 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    and
    Radiocommunications Act 1992
    to provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority with planning and enforcement powers for the implementation of the re-stack of digital television channels and the realisation of digital dividend spectrum; and
    Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
    ,
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    ,
    Copyright Act 1968
    and
    Radiocommunications Act 1992
    in relation to: the operation of the digital television services provided by the satellite service licensed under section 38C of the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    ; and other digital television matters. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2010

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    18 Mar 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    and
    Copyright Act 1968
    in relation to: licensing arrangements for satellite digital television broadcasting services; commercial digital television programming on satellite broadcasting services; conditions on satellite broadcasting service licensees; technical standards for digital transmission and domestic reception of satellite services; content obligations on commercial television broadcasting licensees; regulation of content broadcast on satellite services; conditional access arrangements for satellite services; and access to terrestrially-delivered commercial digital television services in regional and remote areas. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    24 Sep 2008 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    to: implement a staggered, region-by-region digital switch-over television timetable (to be completed by 31 December 2013); and specify the dates of two statutory reviews. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2008

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    17 Sep 2008 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    and
    Radiocommunications Act 1992
    to: extend the deadline for commercial broadcasters to commence digital radio services in the mainland state capital cities to 1 July 2009; remove the requirement for digital radio services to commence in Hobart by the extended deadline; and retain the option for community radio stations to take up shares in joint venture companies that own digital radio transmission infrastructure. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Bill 2010

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    18 Mar 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water 
    Summary
    Establishes a national scheme to require the disclosure of information about the energy efficiency of large commercial office buildings at the point of sale, lease and sublease in the form of a building energy efficiency certificate. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2007

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    28 Mar 2007 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    ,
    Radiocommunications Act 1992
    and
    Trade Practices Act 1974
    to implement a framework for digital radio broadcasting and transmission and provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission with the powers necessary to support and manage the new framework. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    15 Feb 2007 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Broadcasting Services Act 1992
    to ensure that persons who re-transmit content provided by National Indigenous TV Limited (NITV Ltd) for transmission by Imparja Television are exempt from the regulatory requirements of the Act; and
    Copyright Act 1968
    to amend the statutory licence copyright collection scheme to apply it to re-transmissions of NITV Ltd program material. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

What is a bill?

A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.

Parliament House Calendar

March 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
24252627281 Other2
3 Other4 Other5 Other6 Other7 Other89
10 Public holiday11 Both12 Both13 Both14 Other15 Other16
17 Both18 Both19 Both20 Both21 Other22 Other23
24 Other2526 Other27 Other28 Other2930
31 Public holiday123456
  • Senate
  • House of Representatives
  • Both
  • Public Holiday
  • Other

Parliamentary sitting calendar

Go to the full calendar of events

Senator/Member search

Browse all Senators and Members