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• National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Worker Screening Database) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Families and Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

  to establish a database for nationally consistent worker screening for people who provide NDIS supports and services through a registered NDIS provider. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Overseas Welfare Recipients Integrity Program) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to require certain welfare recipients aged 80 years and over, who have been absent from Australia for at least two years, to provide a proof of life certificate at least once every two years in accordance with a notice sent by the Secretary; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to repeal certain provisions as a consequence of the cessation of Widow B Pension and Wife Pension from 20 March 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: introduce new criminal offences and civil penalty provisions for company officers that fail to prevent the company from making creditor-defeating dispositions and other persons that facilitate a company making a creditor-defeating disposition; allow liquidators to apply for a court order in relation to a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to make orders to recover, for the benefit of a company's creditors, company property disposed of or benefits received under a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; prevent directors from improperly backdating resignations or ceasing to be a director when this would leave a company with no directors; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Act 2019

  and

  Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Corporate and Financial Sector Penalties) Act 2019

  ; the

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

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to collect estimates of anticipated goods and services tax (GST) liabilities and make company directors personally liable for their company's GST liabilities in certain circumstances; the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to authorise the commissioner to retain tax refunds where a taxpayer has failed to lodge a return or provide other information that may affect the amount of a refund; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to create the Consumer Data Right to provide individuals and businesses with a right to access specified data in relation to them held by businesses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill: amends 12 Acts to bring 35 existing business registers into the new regime; and

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to introduce a director identification number requirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Regulations References) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Regulations References) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to remove references to specific titles of regulations, and instead enable references to the titles or provisions of regulations to be prescribed by regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Regulations References) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Regulations References) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to remove references to specific titles of regulations, and instead enable references to the titles or provisions of regulations to be prescribed by regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to implement certain recommendations of the

  Review of the impact of the TEQSA Act on the higher education sector

  by: removing references to specific categories of non-threshold standards; removing unnecessary references to 'the Research Minister' and requiring that advice on new standards need only be sought from that minister in certain circumstances; requiring TEQSA to advise the minister and the Higher Education Standards Panel (the panel) before it undertakes a quality review that could have certain impacts; providing that overseas universities can offer a course of study not wholly or mainly provided from Australian premises, and use the word 'university' to represent its operations, without committing an offence; providing that a quorum for TEQSA meetings is a majority of commissioners; expanding the skill set that the minister must ensure is encompassed by the panel members; expanding the functions of the panel; providing a consent-based exception to the offence of unauthorised disclosure or use of information; allowing TEQSA to disclose certain higher education and personal information to the minister, the secretary and relevant officers; and allowing TEQSA to disclose information for research purposes and to a complainant in relation to a complaint without the consent of the body to which the information applies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: prohibit certain conduct in electricity retail, contract and wholesale markets, broadly relating to retail pricing, financial contract market liquidity and conduct in wholesale spot markets; provide remedies which the ACCC may use if it reasonably believes a corporation has engaged, or is engaging, in prohibited conduct in the electricity sector; enable the Treasurer, following the receipt of a prohibited conduct recommendation from the ACCC, to issue a written order to a corporation or another body to make offers to enter into electricity financial contracts with third party entities; enable the Treasurer, following the receipt of a prohibited conduct recommendation from the ACCC, to apply to the Federal Court (the court) for a divestiture order and for the court to make related orders that a corporation or another body corporate dispose of interests in securities or assets that are part of its electricity business; set out the notice and recommendation procedures that must be followed before an order can be made in respect of a corporation or another body corporate; confer new compulsory information gathering powers on the Australian Energy Regulator (AER); allow the AER to share information with other agencies; and facilitate the conferral of functions related to the regulation of retail electricity prices on the AER. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coal-Fired Power Funding Prohibition Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Prohibits the Commonwealth government or its agencies from funding the refurbishment, building or purchase of, or providing indirect assistance to, a coal-fired power station. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum