TOTAL RESULTS: 472

• Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023, Financial Accountability Regime (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort) Bill 2023 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2023, the bill imposes levies on certain industry entities to recover the cost of the compensation scheme of last resort. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fuel and Vehicle Standards Legislation Amendment (Reducing Vehicle Pollution) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  TINK, Kylea, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000

  and

  Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018

  to require light vehicles to meet Euro 6d vehicle pollution standards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to abolish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide for transitional arrangements;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to apply certain provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  to: abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and provide for transitional arrangements; repeal the

  Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016

  ; and rename the Act to the

  Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022

  ;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: amend the objects of the Act to include the promotion of job security and gender equity; guide the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in its consideration of equal remuneration and work value cases; establish a Pay Equity Expert Panel and a Care Community Sector Expert Panel to determine equal remuneration cases and certain award cases; prohibit pay secrecy; prohibit sexual harassment in connection with work; add the protected attributes of breastfeeding, gender identity and intersex status to the existing anti-discrimination provisions; limit the use of fixed term contracts; expand the circumstances in which an employee may request flexible work arrangements and empower the FWC to resolve disputes regarding flexible work arrangements; amend the requirements for approval of an enterprise agreement; simplify the process for initiating bargaining in certain circumstances; amend the Better Off Overall Test; enable the FWC to vary enterprise agreements to correct errors, defects or irregularities; provide for a new intractable bargaining declaration scheme; amend certain processes relating to industrial action and Protected Action Ballots; remove limitations on access to the low-paid bargaining stream and the single-interest employer authorisation stream; amend provisions relating to making multi-enterprise agreements (to be known as cooperative workplace agreements); amend small claims procedures to enable unpaid entitlement recovery; and prohibit national system employers from advertising employment at a rate of pay that would contravene the Act;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide that the FWC can only terminate an agreement that has nominally expired on the unilateral application of a party in limited circumstances;

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide for the sunsetting of all remaining transitional instruments; and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to update the worker's compensation presumptive liability provisions for firefighters. Also makes consequential amendments to four Acts and repeals the

  Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2016

  and

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: provide families earning up to $80,000 a child care subsidy (CCS) rate of 90 per cent, and families earning over $80,000 a CCS rate that tapers down by one percentage point for each additional $5,000 of family income until it reaches zero per cent for families earning $350,000; and provide additional discretion to allow payment of CCS for absences in exceptional circumstances;

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

  to: expand existing financial reporting requirements to all types of approved child care providers; enable the publication of certain information received from large child care providers online; require child care providers to collect gap fees via electronic funds transfer; make good governance an eligibility requirement for provider approval; enable the secretary to specify the information an attendance report by a provider must contain; clarify the interactions with CCS where providers waive gap fees for families in prescribed events or circumstances; and extend the period for passing on fee reduction amounts to families in limited circumstances;

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Subsidy) Act 2021

  to remove the existing higher CCS for families with multiple children (due to commence from July 2023);

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: provide for a base level of 36 subsidised hours of child care per fortnight for First Nations children, regardless of activity levels; permit child care providers to offer a discount on child care fees to staff engaged as educators, without this affecting the amount of CCS payable for the educator; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022, the bill establishes a financial accountability regime to impose accountability, key personnel, deferred remuneration and notification obligations on directors and senior executives of financial entities in the banking, insurance and superannuation industries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022, the bill amends: 12 Acts to make amendments consequential on the new financial accountability regime; the

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  and

  Banking Act 1959

  to make amendments consequential on the end of the banking executive accountability regime; the

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to establish the financial services compensation scheme of last resort to provide compensation to eligible consumers where the Australian Financial Complaints Authority has made a determination in their favour that remains unpaid; the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to impose additional obligations on providers of small amount credit contracts and consumer leases; and the

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to include application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022, Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022, the bill provides for the collection and administration of the levy imposed by the

  Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Act 2022

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022, Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022, the bill imposes a levy on certain industry entities to recover the cost of the compensation scheme of last resort. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022 and Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022, the bill amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015

  to update the fee cap amount to incorporate indexation and the dates referred to in the indexation provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to replace the current entitlement in the National Employment Standards to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period with an entitlement to ten days of paid leave for full-time, part-time and casual employees; extend the definition of family and domestic violence to include conduct of a current or former intimate partner of an employee, or a member of an employee's household; and extend the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave to non-national system employees once the International Labour Organization

  Convention on Violence and Harassment

  (No. 190) comes into force for Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum