TOTAL RESULTS: 352

• Protecting Local Jobs (Regulating Enterprise Migration Agreements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that enterprise migration agreements are regulated by placing certain requirements on employers and the minister to ensure such agreements are used only where genuinely necessary and do not adversely affect local job opportunities; and require enterprise migration agreements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, the bill imposes a pay as you go (PAYG) withholding non-compliance tax on directors and, in some circumstances, their associates where their company has a PAYG withholding liability for an income year and the director or associate is entitled to a credit for amounts withheld by the company during the income year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to increase the rate of the passenger movement charge from $47 to $55 from 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  In response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report in relation to Australian privacy law and practice, the bill amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: replace the current privacy principles for the public and private sectors with a single set of privacy principles (the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)); implement a comprehensive credit reporting system which includes five kinds of personal information; provide for codes of practice under the APPs and a credit reporting code, including powers for the Privacy Commissioner to develop and register codes that are binding on specified agencies and organisations; and clarify the functions and powers of the Information Commissioner and increase the commissioner’s ability to resolve complaints, recognise and encourage the use of external dispute resolutions services, conduct investigations and promote compliance with privacy obligations. Also makes consequential amendments to 55 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Counsel and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970

  to transfer the functions of the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel;

  Acts Publication Act 1905

  and

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to confer on the First Parliamentary Counsel certain functions previously undertaken by the secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  ,

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  and

  Judiciary Act 1903

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave and Other Legislation Amendment (Dad and Partner Pay and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: extend the Paid Parental Leave Scheme to certain working fathers and partners so that they receive two weeks’ dad and partner pay at the rate of the national minimum wage; and clarify provisions relating to: ‘keeping in touch days’; debt recovery; notices; and delegation of the secretary’s powers; the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: clarify unpaid parental leave arrangements in the event of a stillbirth or infant death; enable early commencement of unpaid parental leave; and enable employees who are on unpaid parental leave to perform permissible paid work for short periods (‘keeping in touch days’); and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Poker Machine Harm Reduction ($1 Bets and Other Measures) Bill 2012 [2013]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard
  MADIGAN, Sen John
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Regulates poker machine use by requiring that poker machines must not accept banknotes with a denomination greater than $20, must not accept certain additional credits, must not allow a bet in excess of $1 per spin, and must not have a jackpot or a linked-jackpot arrangement greater than $500; imposes penalties for a contravention of these requirements; provides that the minister takes all reasonable steps to implement uniform national standards for poker machines in relation to harm minimisation, with particular reference to maximum losses, to take effect from 1 January 2015; and provides for the establishment of a national monitoring network. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Service Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Service Act 1999

  to: clarify the roles and responsibilities of secretaries of departments and revise their employment arrangements; create the Secretaries Board to replace the Management Advisory Committee; amend the role and responsibilities of the Senior Executive Service; clarify the role and functions of the Australian Public Service (APS) Commissioner; appoint Special Commissioners to assist the commissioner in undertaking certain reviews; revise the APS Values and provide for a set of APS Employment Principles; and make technical amendments in relation to: code of conduct; whistleblower reports; review of actions; temporary APS employees; machinery of government changes; confidentiality of information; immunity from suit; and legislative instruments. Also makes consequential amendments to nine other Acts and repeals the

  Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011, the bill amends the:

  Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

  to enable the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records system and certain other entities to take up and use healthcare identifiers; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  National Health Act 1953

  to enable Medical Benefits Scheme, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, organ donor and childhood immunisation information to be included in a consumer’s eHealth record if the consumer chooses to have that information included. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, the bill: establishes the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) System Operator to be responsible for the operation of the PCEHR system and the advisory bodies which will support the operation of the system; enables consumers or their nominated representatives to register for an eHealth record and to control the access to that record; provides for civil penalties to be imposed when there is an unauthorised use, collection or disclosure of information in a consumer’s eHealth record or actions occur which may compromise the integrity of the PCEHR system; enables the minister to make PCEHR rules; requires the Information Commissioner and the PCEHR System Operator to report annually; and provides for a review of the first two years of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum