Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and other 2001 Budget Measures) Bill 2003

Summary

Amends the: A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 to: ensure that the language, literacy and numeracy supplement is not tax free; and replace the definition of “receiving”; A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to enable protected information to be obtained and used for the Family Homelessness Prevention and Early Intervention Pilot; Social Security Act 1991 and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to provide for Parenting Payment Participating Agreements which will require people receiving parenting payments to undertake certain activities; and Social Security Act 1991 to: close access for new applicants to mature age allowance and partner allowance; introduce changes in relation to administrative penalties; and introduce more flexible participation requirements for mature age newstart recipients.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	16 May 2002
Second reading moved	16 May 2002
Second reading agreed to	30 May 2002
Third reading agreed to	30 May 2002

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	19 Jun 2002
Second reading moved	19 Jun 2002
Second reading debate	23 Oct 2002
Second reading agreed to	15 Nov 2002
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 24 Government amendments agreed to; Bill divided into 2 bills	15 Nov 2002

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House declined to consider Senate message and requested reconsideration by Senate on Bill as originally transmitted	03 Dec 2002

Senate
Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not insist on its division of the bill, and agreed to 55 Opposition and 16 Australian Democrats amendments, and the 24 Government amendments previously agreed to on 15/11/2002	12 Dec 2002
Third reading agreed to	12 Dec 2002

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to amendments nos 1, 6 and 66-68, disagreed to amendments nos 4, 18, 21-27,33, 35, 37-55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63-65 and 74-77 and disagreed to amendments nos 2, 3, 5, 7-17, 20, 28-32, 34, 36, 56, 62, 69-73 and 78-94 and made 48 amendments in their place thereof	12 Dec 2002 (After Midnight)

Senate
Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not insist on its amendments nos 4, 21, 23, 25 to 27, 33, 35, 38, 41, 44 to 46, 48, 51 to 53, 55, 57, 58 and 60, agreed to amendments made in place of those amendments, and insisted on amendments nos 18, 22, 24, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 47, 49, 50, 54, 61, 63 to 65 and 74 to 77	12 Dec 2002 (After Midnight)

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House insisted on disagreeing to amendments insisted on by Senate	12 Dec 2002 (After Midnight)

Senate
Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not again insist on its amendments and agreed to 2 Government and 3 Australian Democrats further amendments	27 Mar 2003

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to further Senate amendments	27 Mar 2003


Assent Act no.: 35 Year: 2003	24 Apr 2003

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum

Further supplementary explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

House of representatives

Government

Senate

Australian Democrats [sheet 2700 revised]

Government [sheet EX249]

Opposition [sheet 2688]

Opposition [sheet 2734]

Opposition [sheet 2791 revised]

Opposition [sheet 2722]

Opposition [sheet 2680]

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Schedule of amendments made by the Senate to which the House has disagreed; Schedule of amendments made by the Senate to which the House has disagreed, but made amendments in place thereof; and Schedule of amendments made by the House in place of Senate amendments disagreed

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

Helpful information

Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to either the Votes and Proceedings (House of Representatives) or the Journals (Senate).

Schedules of amendments

Schedules of amendments list amendments agreed to by the second house are communicated to the first house for consideration. Subsequent action by either house may also be included in a schedule.