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• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Apr 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Primary Industries and Energy portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Labelling Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 1997

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  Date

  12 Dec 1996 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Primary Industries and Energy portfolio 

  Bill

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  31 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

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  Date

  16 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Auditor-General Act 1997

  to clarify that the Auditor-General may accept an appointment under the

  Corporations Act 2001

  as an auditor of any Commonwealth controlled company;

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  to: ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies prepare Budget estimates as directed by the Finance Minister; and ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies notify the responsible minister of decisions to undertake certain significant events;

  Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2010

  to make technical amendments; and

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to: enable the Finance Minister to clarify the day on which a special account determination commences; focus the operation of drawing rights on payments and remove the penalty relating to drawing rights; enable the Finance Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, to exercise a discretion to ‘set-off’ amounts owed to the Commonwealth with amounts payable to the Commonwealth; and provide that the Finance Minister cannot delegate certain powers or functions. Also repeals the

  Appropriation (Development Bank) Act 1975

  and

  Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Act 2009

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: replace the maternity immunisation allowance by making payment of the family tax benefit (FTB) Part A supplement conditional on a child meeting the immunisation requirements; pause the indexation of baby bonus for three years from 1 July 2012 and reset the amount of baby bonus to $5000 per child from 1 September 2012; and prevent an individual from being entitled to FTB as fortnightly instalments on the basis of estimated income in certain circumstances;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to give certain carer allowance recipients, who care for a disabled adult, access to bereavement payments on the death of the care receiver;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to allow access to carer supplement for those carers whose rate of payment is reduced to nil because of employment income received in the fortnight covering 1 July in any given year; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge—Fringe Benefits) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

  A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge--Fringe Benefits) Act 1999

  to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income (including reportable fringe benefits) for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  ,

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  and

  Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983

  to reduce the amount of private health insurance rebate eligible taxpayers with complying private health insurance are entitled to when their income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: lower the maximum child age of eligibility for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A from 24 to 21 years of age from 1 January 2012; and pause indexation for the: higher income free area for FTB Part A; FTB Part B income limit; and baby bonus income limit;

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to extend the commencement date for indexation of the paid parental leave income limit;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to require people to test their future work capacity by participating in training or work-related activities in order to qualify for the disability support pension;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable income management to continue in the Cape York area for another 12 months; and

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to clarify that the

  Public Works Committee Act 1969

  does not apply to Aboriginal Land Trusts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum