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• Age Discrimination (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Age Discrimination Bill 2003, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  ,

  Sea Installations Act 1987

  and

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  . Also makes amendments consequential on the proposed

  Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Act 2003

  to the proposed

  Age Discrimination Act 2003

  ,

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  ,

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  ,

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  and

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Age Discrimination Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to: provide exemptions for certain Commonwealth Acts and regulations following expiry on 23 June 2006 of the temporary exemption which provided an exemption for all Commonwealth Acts and regulations for 2 years; provide exemptions for certain other legislative instruments, schemes and programs; clarify the application of some existing exemptions; and repeal an exemption for certain regulations no longer in force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Age Discrimination Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Age Discrimination (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2003, the bill prohibits age discrimination in key areas such as employment, education, access to premises and to goods, services and facilities, provision of accommodation, land dealings, and administration of Commonwealth laws and programs, whilst exempting legitimate differential treatment in areas such as superannuation, taxation, health, social security and migration. Also confers related functions on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure 

  Summary

  Part of a package of eight bills to reform the legal and governance framework for Norfolk Island, the bill amends the

  Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006

  to extend the levies in relation to certain obligations on approved providers to refund accommodation payment balances to Norfolk Island. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills in relation to the Living Longer Living Better aged care package, the bill amends the

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Act 2006

  to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and extend the Accommodation Bond Guarantee Scheme to refundable accommodation deposits and refundable accommodation contributions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the protection of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds, the bill establishes a scheme to guarantee the repayment of aged care residents’ bond balances in the event that an approved provider of a residential aged care service or a flexible care service becomes insolvent and is unable to repay residents’ bond balances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills in relation to the Living Longer Living Better aged care package, the bill amends the

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Act 2006

  to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and enable a levy to be imposed on approved providers for the costs incurred by the Commonwealth in refunding refundable accommodation deposit balances and refundable accommodation contribution balances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to protection of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds, the bill enables the imposition of levies on approved providers in order to recover costs incurred by the Commonwealth as a result of repaying accommodation bond balances to residents in the event that an approved provider of a residential aged care service or a flexible care service becomes insolvent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills in relation to the Living Longer Living Better aged care package, the bill amends: the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to: remove the distinction between low level and high level residential care; provide for a means test combining income and assets tests and annual and lifetime caps on means tested care fees; provide for a dementia supplement, veterans’ mental health supplement and workforce supplement to be payable to providers who care for eligible care recipients; enable care recipients to choose the method by which they pay for accommodation, including by a fully refundable lump sum, a rental style periodic payment, or a combination of both; replace community care and some forms of care delivered in a person’s home with home care; extend the community visitors scheme to people in home care; appoint and provide for the functions of an Aged Care Pricing Commissioner; require the commissioner to prepare an annual report; and provide that an independent review of this package is undertaken and provided to the minister by 1 July 2017; and eight Acts to make consequential and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Single Quality Framework) Reform Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013

  to provide for a single set of aged care quality standards to apply to all Commonwealth funded aged care providers;

  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013

  to vary the functions of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency to reference the Aged Care Quality Standards; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt protected information acquired by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency from disclosure under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum