A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
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10 Aug 2023
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
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Introduced with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023, the bill amends the
Archives Act 1983
, Freedom of Information Act 1982
and Parliamentary Service Determination 2013
to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service.
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10 Aug 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
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Introduced with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s
Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces
by establishing the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory agency to provide human resources and certain other services for parliamentarians and persons employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984
. Also establishes the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Advisory Board and the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Consultative Committee.
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14 Jun 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Responding to certain recommendations of the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (the Thodey Review), the bill amends the
Public Service Act 1999
to: include a new Australian Public Service (APS) Value of ‘Stewardship’; require the Secretaries Board to prepare an APS Purpose Statement; require agency heads to uphold and promote the APS Purpose Statement; provide that ministers must not direct agency heads on individual employment matters; require agency heads to put in place measures to enable decision-making to occur at the lowest appropriate classification; require regular capability reviews; require the Secretaries Board to request and publish regular long-term insights reports; require agencies to publish annual APS Employee Census results and respond to relevant findings through an action plan; and remove the requirement to seek the APS Commissioner’s consent to delegate powers and functions to Australian Defence Force members.
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01 Dec 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care
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Introduced with the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Medical Device and Human Tissue Product List and Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2022, the bill amends the
Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009
to: update references to the renamed Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules; and amend an incorrect reference to a ministerial determination.
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01 Dec 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care
- Summary
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Introduced with the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Medical Device and Human Tissue Product List and Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022, the bill amends the
Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Act 2007
to: amend the long title of the Act; provide for a cost recovery levy on each kind of medical device and human tissue product on the Prescribed List of Benefits for Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products; allow regulations and rules to provide for matters in relation to the levy; and rename the legislative instrument for medical devices and human tissue products that may be made under the Act.
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01 Dec 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care
- Summary
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Introduced with the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2022 and Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022, the bill amends the
Private Health Insurance Act 2007
to: align relevant definitions of medical devices and human tissue products with the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
; rename the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (No. 3) 2022 as the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules; and enable the minister to establish fee for service cost recovery arrangements. Also makes consequential amendments to the Private Health Insurance (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2007
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30 Nov 2022
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Social Services
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Amends the
Paid Parental Leave Act 2010
to: extend paid parental leave (PPL) pay from 18 weeks to 20 weeks from 1 July 2023, with two weeks reserved on a 'use it or lose' basis for each claimant; remove the notion of primary, secondary and tertiary claimants and the requirement that the primary claimants of parental leave pay must be the birth parent; make paid parental leave consist only of flexible PPL days and remove the requirement to not return to work in order to be eligible; introduce a $350,000 family income limit under which families can be assessed if they do not meet the individual income test; and allow an eligible father or partner to receive parental leave pay regardless of whether the birth parent meets the income test, residency requirements or is serving a newly arrived resident's waiting period. Also makes consequential amendments to eight Acts.
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30 Nov 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013
to: provide that 'personal work-related conduct' does not fall within the public interest disclosure (PID) scheme; amend the process for authorised officers' handling and allocation of disclosures, and principal officers' investigation of disclosures; expand the scope of protections for disclosers and availability of civil remedies for reprisal action taken against a person who has made, or may make, a PID; remove the general secrecy offence; clarify the roles of the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security in receiving and investigating complaints about the handling of a disclosure by an agency; establish a procedure for handling disclosures where there is a machinery of government change; amend the definitions of 'agencies', 'public officials' and 'principal officers'; exclude grant recipients from the application of the Act; provide for a review of the Act five years after the commencement of the amendments in the bill; and make minor amendments; and National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022
, National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022
and Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013
to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation enacted in November 2022.
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26 Oct 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to disclose information to a non-corporate Commonwealth entity that is responsible for enforcing one or more laws of the Commonwealth; Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010
to allow the Australian information Commissioner to delegate certain functions or powers; and Privacy Act 1988
to: expand the Australian Information Commissioner's enforcement and information sharing powers; and increase penalties for serious or repeated interferences with privacy.
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17 Feb 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Finance
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Implements certain 'Your Future, Your Super' reforms by amending the:
Parliamentary Superannuation Act 2004
to: remove the existing choice of fund provisions; enable the Commonwealth to make employer superannuation contributions for new parliamentarians to a chosen, stapled or default fund in various circumstances; and provide for the determination of a default fund for parliamentarians if an existing default fund is unable to accept new members due to failing the annual performance test for MySuper products for two consecutive years; Superannuation Act 2005
to provide for the determination of an alternative default fund for Australian Public Service employees if the Public Sector Superannuation Accumulation Plan is unable to accept new members due to failing the annual performance test for MySuper products for two consecutive years; Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011
and Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017
to make consequential amendments; and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021
to enable the Commonwealth to make employer superannuation contributions for judges of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia to a chosen, stapled or default fund in various circumstances.
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