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• Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975

  to remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• DisabilityCare Australia Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Consequential on the package of bills in relation to funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (DisabilityCare Australia), the bill amends the:

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to enable reimbursements to the states and territories through the COAG Reform Fund;

  Future Fund Act 2006

  to expand the Future Fund’s duties to include management of the DisabilityCare Australia Fund; and

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  to enable the transfer of amounts between the Building Australia Fund, Education Investment Fund, Health and Hospitals Fund and the DisabilityCare Australia Fund in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013, the bill amends the:

  Air Services Act 1995

  to: provide that statutory liens maintain priority over security interests registered in the International Registry, provided that the statutory line was recorded first;

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to allow functions to be conferred on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to enable CASA to record, remove and exercise an Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorisation; and

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  to provide that the Cape Town Convention will prevail over the Act to the extent that an inconsistency applies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013, the bill enables Australia’s accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment which will provide an international registry system to protect secure creditors who finance the acquisition of aircraft. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  Portfolio

  Leader of the House 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Services Act 1999

  to restore the exclusion for the parliamentary departments and office holders from the application of the Freedom of Information Act 1982. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to establish a framework for the mandatory notification by regulated entities of serious data breaches to the Australian Information Commissioner and to affected individuals. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Interest Disclosure (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Public Service and Integrity 

  Summary

  Further to the Public Interest Disclosure Bill 2013, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  ,

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  ,

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  and

  Public Service Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Supporting More Australians into Work) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the income free area that applies for recipients of Newstart Allowance, Widow Allowance, Partner Allowance, Parenting Payment (Partnered) and Sickness Allowance; extend eligibility for the Pensioner Education Supplement to single principal carer parents receiving Newstart Allowance payments; and provide a 12-week extension of eligibility for the Pensioner Concessioner Card to single parents who are no longer qualified for Parenting Payment (Single) because their youngest child has turned eight years of age and who do not qualify for another income support payment due to earnings from employment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Public Housing Tenants’ Support) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

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

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to establish the Housing Payment Deduction Scheme to provide for rent and household utilities to be compulsorily deducted from specified welfare payments to public housing tenants who are in significant rental arrears that could lead to eviction or housing abandonment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Laws Amendment (MySuper Capital Gains Tax Relief and Other Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide income tax relief to superannuation funds where there is a mandatory transfer of default members’ account balances to a MySuper product in another superannuation fund; and

  Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973

  to make consequential amendments as a result of the proposed

  Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Increased Concessional Contributions Cap and Other Measures) Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum