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• Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for Not-for-profit Concessions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends taxation legislation to: restate the ‘in Australia’ special conditions for income tax exempt entities, ensuring that they generally must be operated principally in Australia and for the broad benefit of the Australian community; standardise the other special conditions entities must meet to be income tax exempt; standardise the term ‘not-for-profit’; and codify the ‘in Australia’ special conditions for deductible gift recipients ensuring that they must generally operate solely in Australia, and pursue their purposes solely in Australia (with some exceptions, such as overseas aid funds and some environmental organisations). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Small Business—Penalty Rates Exemption) Bill 2012

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  Date

  16 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that businesses in the restaurant and catering or retail industries with fewer than 20 full-time and full-time equivalent employees are only required to pay penalty rates where an employee has worked more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period, or more than 38 hours in a seven-day period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Public Interest Test) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to apply a public interest test to changes in the control of certain media operations on or after 28 June 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 4) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  to limit the concessional tax treatment of living-away-from-home allowances and benefits to certain employees for a maximum period of 12 months;

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to clarify the goods and services tax consequences when a representative of an incapacitated entity is a creditor of that entity; and

  Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Act 2012

  in relation to consolidation events so that no interest is payable if an overpayment of income tax arises because of a deduction under the pre-rules and no shortfall interest or administrative penalty is payable if additional tax becomes payable under the pre-rules or interim rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Procedure) Bill 2012

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  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: remove the prescription relating to how postal votes are processed and facilitate technological developments over time; and make technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: increase to $1000 and $2000, respectively, the nomination deposit that must be paid by or on behalf of candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate; increase to 100 the number of electors required to nominate an unendorsed candidate; and require unendorsed Senate candidates, who have made a request to be grouped, to each be nominated by 100 unique electors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) benefit caps to apply where more than one Medicare service is performed on the same patient on the same occasion and is deemed to be ‘one professional service’; and enable the Chief Executive Medicare to determine the manner in which families confirm the composition of their family for Medicare Safety Net and EMSN purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to clarify arrangements for the payment of travel expenses for treatment;

  Defence Service Homes Act 1918

  to extend eligibility for benefits;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide that reimbursements made under the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are exempt from income tax;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that certain bereavement payments in respect of indigent veterans or members are exempt income for the purposes of the social security income test;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: align maintenance income and attendant allowance provisions with those in the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ; provide for provision of special assistance by inclusion in a legislative instrument; clarify administrative arrangements for certain travel; and clarify that debt recovery provisions apply to all provisions of the Act, the regulations and any legislative instrument made under the Act;

  War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920

  to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and repeal inoperative provisions; and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Act 2012

  ,

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Responds to the High Court’s decision in

  Williams v Commonwealth

  [2012] HCA 23 by amending the:

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  (FMA Act) to empower the Commonwealth, where authority does not otherwise exist, to make, vary or administer arrangements under which public money is or may become payable, or to make grants of financial assistance, including payments or grants for the purposes of particular programs, where those arrangements or grants are specified in regulations;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to clarify that decisions made under these provisions of the FMA Act are not subject to judicial review; and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 to specify, for the purposes of these provisions of the FMA Act, arrangements, grants and programs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Reporting Panel) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to close the Financial Reporting Panel by repealing its functions and powers; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to enable courts or tribunals to continue to have regard to previous reports by the panel. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Military Court of Australia (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Military Court of Australia Bill 2012, the bill amends: the

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  to: retain courts martial and Defence Force magistrates; provide for a right of election for trial; clarify the status and character of service offences; remove references to old system offences; and maintain cooperation where military discipline and criminal law jurisdictions overlap; and 22 other Acts to make consequential amendments. Also abolishes the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal by repealing the

  Defence Force Discipline Appeals Act 1955

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum