Summary
Amends the:
Federal Financial Relations Act 2009
to increase the general drawing rights limit for the 2008-09 financial year to $1,250,000,000 to enable the Commonwealth to provide general purpose financial assistance to the states; and
Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act 1995
to enable the minister to permit a state to receive an entitlement to financial assistance before the end of the financial year to which that assistance relates.