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• Corporations Amendment (Meetings and Documents) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: establish a permanent mechanism to allow companies and registered schemes to hold hybrid (in person and remote) meetings; and use technology to execute, sign and share company and meeting related documents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Temporary Visa Extensions and Reinstatements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable uniform and automatic extensions to time-limited temporary visa subclasses, where the visa holder has been unable to enter Australia due to travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021, the bill imposes a temporary levy on offshore petroleum production to recover the Commonwealth's costs of decommissioning the Laminaria and Corallina oil fields and associated infrastructure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Spam Amendment (Unsolicited Political Communications) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  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; and

  Spam Act 2003

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

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends 41 Acts to replace provisions that require forms to be prescribed by regulations and reflect modern drafting practices, such as providing for the forms to be approved by a specified person or body, by notifiable instrument, or enabling regulations to directly mandate the requirements themselves rather than requiring particular forms. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to specify certain administrative features relating to the Laminaria and Corallina decommissioning levy, including the requirement that the levy is payable to the Commissioner of Taxation annually. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Prohibits discrimination based on a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, statutory authorities, local governments, and private enterprises. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: broaden the remit of the Professional Services Review (PSR) to make agreements with any person under review who acknowledges inappropriate practice (including bodies corporate); and introduce new sanctions for persons who fail to respond to a notice to produce documents to the Director of the PSR or to a PSR Committee, or fail to appear at hearings;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  to provide for: the recovery of interest payable on certain debts;, the application of administrative penalties to Shared Debt Recovery Scheme debts; the use of financial information gathering powers in debt recovery, Administrative Appeal Tribunal reviews where one or more garnishee notices are issued in relation to certain debts; and clarification of the Commonwealth's ability to recover debts from a person or the estate of a person. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resourses 

  Summary

  Further to the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 and the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021, the bill amends the:

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: extend the operation of the Act to provide that a person commits an offence if a regulated entity interferes with offshore infrastructure activities; clarify the dual role of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) in regulating the Act and the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure framework, including in relation to NOPSEMA's duties, money and annual reporting requirements; and clarify that the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator may also be appointed as the Offshore Infrastructure Registrar; and

  Coral Sea Islands Act 1969

  ,

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  ,

  Sea Installations Act 1987

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telstra Corporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: define Telstra successor companies and designated Telstra successor entities and replace references to Telstra with references to the successor entities; allow the Minister and Australian Communications and Media Authority to make determinations relating to the designated successor entities; and make technical and consequential amendments; Telstra Corporation Act 2001 to extend existing regulations relating to the operation and ownership of Telstra to its successor entities; the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: extend existing regulations relating to the operation and ownership of Telstra to its successor entities; and make consequential amendments; the

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to: extend the Minister's powers to impose service provider obligations to Telstra's successor entities and retail price controls on each successor entity; and make consequential technical amendments; and amends three regulations, four determinations and a code of access in relation to ownership of Telstra shares, access to telecommunications infrastructure, carrier licence conditions, emergency call persons and services, real estate development exemptions, arbitration and sunsetting. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum