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• Aged Care Amendment (Resident Welfare and Provider Disclosure) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GRIFF, Sen Stirling 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to: require Commonwealth-subsidised residential aged care providers to provide certain information in relation to the number of falls and medication errors experienced by care recipients; and require the publication of certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (A Fair Go for Age Pensioners) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ANNING, Sen Fraser 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove the means test for the age pension. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia's Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the

  Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review) by amending the:

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  and

  Australian Sports Commission Act 1989

  to abolish the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel; and

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: extend statutory protection against civil actions to national sporting organisations and their staff in the exercise of anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) functions; extend the current protection that allows an entrusted person to resist production of protected information to a court or tribunal to any person in possession of protected information; change the statutory threshold at which the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority CEO may issue a disclosure notice from 'reasonably believes' (that a person has information, documents or things that may be relevant to administration of the national anti-doping scheme) to 'reasonably suspects'; allow a person entitled to inspect or view a document produced pursuant to a disclosure notice to do so only at such times and places as the CEO thinks appropriate; increase the penalty for non-compliance with a disclosure notice from 30 to 60 penalty units; and provide that a person is not excused from complying with the requirement to answer a question, give information or provide a document or thing on the grounds that doing so may incriminate them or expose them to a penalty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Legislation Amendment (Protecting Dugongs and Turtles) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HINCH, Sen Derryn 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Act 1975

  to require that agreements between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and community groups include consideration of the protection and conservation of dugongs and turtles; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 to: update the rules governing the accreditation and funding process for traditional use of marine resource agreements; and to require traditional owners to describe the methods by which harvesting of protected species is to occur;

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Act 1975

  to increase penalties for aggravated offences in relation to protection of listed marine species; and

  Australian Border Force Act 2015

  ,

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  ,

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

  to require Commonwealth agencies that are responsible for enforcing offence provisions under environment legislation to report on actions they have taken in respect of dugongs and turtles. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Voluntary Student Services and Amenities Fee) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGRATH, Sen James 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to remove the compulsory student services and amenities fee levied on all higher education students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Control Act 1982

  to prohibit the export of cotton grown in Australia three years from the day the provisions of the bill commence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Services Amendment (Photographic Identification and Fraud Prevention) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to require photographic identification on all Medicare cards to reduce fraudulent usage of Medicare cards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Murray-Darling Basin Commission of Inquiry Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Establishes a commission of inquiry, with the same powers as a royal commission, to inquire into the management of the Murray-Darling Basin water resources and related matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  to expedite the mandated review of the operation, effectiveness and implications of the

  Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018

  , by requiring that it be conducted before the end of the 18 month period beginning on the day the Act received Royal Assent; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to extend the definition of 'interception agency' to include the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, the Independent Commission Against Corruption of New South Wales, the New South Wales Crime Commission, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission of New South Wales, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission of Victoria, the Crime and Corruption Commission of Queensland, the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (SA) and the Corruption and Crime Commission (WA). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Unsolicited Communications) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GRIFF, Sen Stirling 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to require that voice calls communicating an electoral matter to a person must identify the use of any actors at the beginning of the call;

  Do Not Call Register Act 2006

  to enable consumers who register on the Do Not Call Register to opt out of receiving phone calls from charities;

  Spam Act 2003

  to require political parties to provide an unsubscribe function for all unsolicited electronic communications containing political content; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum