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• Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: five Acts to provide for grants to higher education providers to assist Indigenous students; the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to enable the secretary to be notified of tax file numbers (TFNs) for the purpose of administering student assistance under the VET FEE-HELP scheme; the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to enable the use and disclosure of TFNs by Commonwealth officers for the purposes of administering VET FEE-HELP; and the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide a new minimum repayment income of $44 999 for the compulsory repayment of Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts; replace the current repayment thresholds and introduce additional repayment thresholds; index HELP repayment thresholds to the consumer price index instead of average weekly earnings; and introduce, from 1 January 2019, a combined lifetime limit on the amount a student can borrow under HELP of $150 000 for students studying medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses, and $104 440 for other students;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to align repayment thresholds for the Student Financial Supplement Scheme (SFSS) compulsory repayments with the HELP thresholds from the 2019-20 financial year;

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  and

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  to provide that, from the 2019-20 financial year, SFSS debts will be repaid after HELP debts are discharged rather than concurrently; and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• HIH Royal Commission (Transfer of Records) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Provides for the transfer of custody of certain records of the HIH Royal Commission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs and Integrity Agencies Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  ,

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  and

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: give effect to the allocation of certain ministerial powers following the establishment of a new Home Affairs portfolio; and make changes relating to the Attorney-General’s oversight of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Terminates the lease in respect of Block 26, Section 44 in the Division of Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that, when an unlawful non-citizen is in the process of being removed to another country and the removal is aborted, or is completed but the person is not permitted entry into the receiving country, and as a direct result the person is returned to Australia, then that person has a lawful basis to return to Australia without a visa; provide that, when such a person does return to Australia without a visa, the person will be taken to have been continuously in the migration zone for the purposes of certain sections of the Act which bar the person from making a valid application for certain visas; and allow the department to use an online account to provide clients with certain legally required communications;

  Customs Act 1901

  to: allow the department to make a recoverable payment to a person who is entitled to it; and make technical amendments; and

  Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978

  to insert a new head of power so that regulations can prescribe the charging and recovery of fees for, and in relation to, the payment of passenger movement charge or an amount equal to the charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill amends the

  Australian Animal Health Council (Live-stock Industries) Funding Act 1996

  to: enable horse disease response levies to be appropriated to the Australian Animal Health Council; and provide that any excess levies are to be used for research and development activities or the promotion or maintenance of horse health. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill imposes a levy on manufactured horse feed and worm treatments for horses, to enable the horse industry to repay amounts paid by the Commonwealth on behalf of the horse industry in response to an emergency animal disease outbreak affecting horses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill: enables the collection and administration of a horse disease response levy on manufactured horse feed and worm treatments for horses; imposes penalties for unpaid levies and the remission of any penalties for late payments; enables the collection of information and documents as specified by the Commonwealth; provides for entry, search and seizure powers; requires the minister to review the levy mechanism every five years unless the levies are active at the time the review is due. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Amendment) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000

  to deem Horticulture Australia Limited in its capacity as the export control body under the Act to be a Commonwealth agency for the purposes of section 16 of the

  Customs Administration Act 1985

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum