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• Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Consequent on the Personal Property Securities Bill 2009, the bill amends 25 Acts relating to fisheries, intellectual property, maritime and other legislation to enable the creation, registration, priority, extinguishment or enforcement of interests in personal property. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010

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  Date

  17 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: allow for conditional listing of prostheses in the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (Prostheses Rules); and require the Minister for Health and Ageing to make rules specifying criteria for listing prostheses in the Prostheses Rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Plain Tobacco Packaging (Removing Branding from Cigarette Packs) Bill 2009 [2010]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  and Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004 to ban advertising, logos or trademarks and specify the appearance requirements for cigarette packaging. 

  Bill

• Personal Property Securities Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Establishes a single national regime for the registration of security interests in personal property, other than land, supported by a national online register of personal property securities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

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  Date

  03 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to allow insurers to permanently offer extended family policies to cover ‘dependent child non-students’; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the National Joint Replacement Register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  The bill: imposes a levy on joint replacement prostheses sponsors to provide funding for the National Joint Replacement Registry; and enables the minister to make Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules by legislative instrument. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Superannuation Amendment (Removal of Excessive Super) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  to: terminate the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Scheme; require existing scheme members to choose a complying superannuation fund in line with the arrangements applying to new parliamentarians since 2004; and require the Commonwealth to pay into the complying superannuation funds chosen by members their respective commuted superannuation benefits and ongoing superannuation contributions. 

  Bill

• Plebiscite for an Australian Republic Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Provides for a national plebiscite to be held in conjunction with the next House of Representatives election on whether Australia should become a republic. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protecting Children from Junk Food Advertising (Broadcasting Amendment) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Schools Assistance (Learning Together—Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004

  to: impose restrictions on food and beverage advertising on television during children’s viewing times; and provide that financial assistance to schools is conditional upon schools not displaying advertisements or sponsorship announcements by companies whose principal activity is the manufacture, distribution or sale of junk food. 

  Bill

• Poker Machine Harm Minimisation Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Jun 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  The bill seeks to promote responsible gaming practices by: imposing technical requirements on corporations which manufacture, sell and supply gaming and poker machines, manufacture or supply cash-back terminals, and on financial institutions which own or operate automatic teller machines; and imposes penalties for contraventions of the requirements. 

  Bill