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• Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills, the bill amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to: separate the Renewable Energy Target scheme into the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target and the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme and create obligations on liable entities; establish an optional clearing house for the transfer of certificates; provide for an enforcement and compliance framework which includes a civil penalty regime; enable corporations to apply for partial exemption certificates; and provide for waste coal mine gas in the renewable energy target. Also contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Foreign Source Income Deferral) Bill (No. 1) 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to repeal the foreign investment fund and the deemed present entitlement rules; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge--Fringe Benefits) Act 1999

  and

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to: increase the Medicare levy and Medicare levy surcharge low-income threshold amounts for individuals, families and pensioners below pension age; and increase the phase-in limits as a result of the increased threshold amounts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Child Support and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to align child support income estimates with financial years; five Acts to allow parents and eligible carers to have the same care determinations made for a child where the care of the child involves more than one carer; the

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

  in relation to non-payment of family tax benefit for non-lodgment of tax returns; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  in relation to the baby bonus and maternity immunisation allowance; and the

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  in relation to reviews to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Corporations Amendment (Financial Market Supervision) Act 2010

  to establish a three-tiered differential reporting framework for small companies limited by guarantee;

  Financial Sector (Business Transfer and Group Restructure) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Medibank Private Sale Act 2006

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to make transitional arrangements in relation to the Company Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to: extend the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme to 2015-16; reduce the maximum grant to $150 000; reduce the maximum number of grants available for an individual recipient to seven; cap intellectual property registration expenses at $50 000; increase the minimum expenses threshold to $20 000; increase the income limit for members of approved joint ventures/consortia to $50 million; remove approved trading houses as an eligible special approval applicant category; reinstate disqualifying convictions; enable Austrade to impose conditions on the accreditation of EMDG consultants; and make changes in relation to applications submitted by accredited EMDG consultants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Ancillary Benefits) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  to facilitate a pilot of drought policy measures to assist farmers to be trialled in Western Australia for 2010-11. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Prudential Refinements and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: 11 Acts in relation to: the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) preventive powers, correction powers, failure management powers, and data collection powers, APRA’s and the Australian Taxation Office’s investigation powers, auditors and actuaries, and the Financial Claims Scheme; six Acts in relation to the methodologies governing the determination of financial sector levies; and four Acts to make technical amendments. Also repeals five redundant Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends 11 Acts to make amendments consequential on the Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010 and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to ensure superannuation fund assets are protected in the event of a default on a limited recourse borrowing arrangement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum