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• Treasury Laws Amendment (2024 Tax and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: modify the foreign resident capital gains withholding payments regime to increase the withholding rate from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent and remove the threshold before which withholding applies; allow employers to make single touch payroll declarations for extended periods; and provide the Commissioner of Taxation with a power to retain tax refunds for a 90-day period to enable the commissioner to obtain financial institution details for the refund to be paid into; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the time in which small or medium business taxpayers may apply to have a tax assessment amended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Establishes the Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers Special Account to make grants of financial assistance to support remuneration increases for workers in the early childhood education and care sector. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: extend the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime to additional services that are recognised by the Financial Action Task Force as posing high money laundering and terrorism financing risks; reframe and clarify the AML/CTF program and customer due diligence obligations; enable the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to require the disclosure of information and conduct examinations; and update the AML/CTF regime to reflect changing business structures, technologies and illicit financing methodologies; and make consequential amendments. Also makes consequential or contingent amendments to 10 other Acts; and repeals the

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements the Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership by amending the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to provide a free rate of customs duty for certain originating goods of the United Kingdom; specify phasing rates of customs duty for certain originating goods of the United Kingdom that will incrementally reduce to free; and provide a safeguard that would restore the customs duty rate to the rate that applied before the commencement of the protocol for certain products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to establish the National Student Ombudsman as a new statutory function of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to deal with complaints about, and conduct investigations into, actions of higher education providers. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  and 3 other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: enable the court to control and manage the conduct of property and other non-child-related proceedings, including to address family violence and ensure appropriate evidence is before the court; codify the duty of disclosure relevant to financial information; amend the arbitration regime for court-ordered or privately arranged family law arbitrations; provide a regulatory framework for Children’s Contact services; safeguard against the disclosure and adducing of evidence arising from communications made in the course of professional confidential relationships; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  and 5 other Acts to clarify various aspects of family law and support the operation of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and the Family Court of Western Australia. Also provides for a review of the amendments made by this proposed Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Adding Superannuation for a More Secure Retirement) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  and

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  to provide a superannuation contribution for people receiving parental leave pay in respect of children born (or regarded as having been born for the purposes of the Act) on or after 1 July 2025;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to make a minor technical amendment in relation to unpaid parental leave; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends 52 Acts to make consequential and technical amendments arising from the enactment of the

  Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024

  . Also repeals the

  Tribunals Amalgamation Act 2015

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Technical Changes to Averaging Price Disclosure Threshold and Other Matters) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to clarify the operation of provisions relating to pricing and supply arrangements for older and low-cost medicines that are more susceptible to medicine shortages. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s

  Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces

  by amending the

  Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023

  to: establish the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission (IPSC) as a workplace investigation framework for Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards to provide oversight of the IPSC. Also amends 5 other Acts consequential on the establishment of the IPSC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum