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• Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: establish a legislative framework to enable the introduction of an accreditation scheme for practices providing diagnostic imaging services covered by the Radiology Quality and Outlays Memorandum of Understanding; and allow for the extension of accreditation schemes to other diagnostic imaging services in the future. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Inappropriate and Prohibited Practices and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Medicare Australia Act 1973

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to replace and strengthen existing prohibitions on inducements and payment of benefits by providers of Medicare funded pathology and diagnostic imaging services to requesters of such services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Provider Number Review) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to vary the frequency of reviews of the operation of the Medicare provider number legislation from two years to five years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: revise the maximum funding amounts for the operation of the Research Quality Framework; reflect changes to the National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes; clarify the administration of the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) and arrangements for Commonwealth supported students; provide for suspension of higher education providers by legislative instrument; and rename Victoria University of Technology to Victoria University. Also makes amendments to the

  Higher Education Funding Act 1998

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and the

  Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003[eitls] to limit the time for students to claim an entitlement to Commonwealth support. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Services (Enhanced Service Delivery) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Human Services 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework for the Health and Social Services Access Card to replace the Medicare Card and other cards and vouchers used to access Australian Government health and social service benefits. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: extend, until 30 June 2006, the existing arrangements for approving pharmacists to supply medicines subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; clarify that dependants of contributors to a health benefits fund with appropriate cover, as well as the contributors, are covered by the fund;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: clarify the scope of the power to make Medicare Tables; and enable the Minister to make legislative instruments determining that Medicare benefits are not payable for professional services in specified circumstances; and

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  to replace references to the Health Insurance Commission with references to the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 4) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: insert a category of Table C providers to enable certain foreign-owned and operated universities to be listed as overseas higher education providers; include Carnegie Mellon University as the first Table C provider; and clarify the tuition assurance arrangements for higher education providers other than Table A providers; and

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003

  as a consequence of the commencement of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Safety-nets) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to increase the extended Medicare safety net threshold from $300 to $500 for concession card holders and families in receipt of Family Tax Benefit Part A, and from $700 to $1000 for all other families and individuals, with effect from 1 January 2006. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to funding and grant levels for 2006-09 for certain purposes, including: 100 new places in Veterinary Science and Tropical Agriculture at James Cook University; capital infrastructure funding for the University of Western Sydney; and Commonwealth Scholarships; and

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  to reflect indexation increases for transitional financial assistance funding for 2006-07. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 3) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to: the definition of “Student Load”; quality and accountability requirements; guidelines for incidental fees and fees in respect of overseas students; compliance audits on the operation of certain higher education providers; and Commonwealth supported students; and make a technical amendment to correct a drafting error;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 2) Act 2005

  to reflect the renaming of Open Learning Australia to Open Universities Australia; and

  Australian National University Act 1991

  to repeal an obselete heading. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum