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• Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: extend the interim period that applies for recently-established court-ordered care arrangements; and provide incentives for the person with increased care to take reasonable action to participate in family dispute resolution where a care dispute relates to an older court order, a parenting plan or a written agreement;

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: allow the Child Support Registrar to take into account an amended tax assessment in an administrative assessment of child support in certain circumstances; allow courts to set aside child support agreements made before 1 July 2008; and allow all child support agreements to be set aside without having to go to court if certain circumstances change;

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

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to: align the methods for recovery of a child support overpayment from a payee with the methods for recovering a child support debt from a payer; provide that all backdated reductions to a child support assessment collected will be recoverable; and insert new backdating provisions for retrospectively creating a child support overpayment or underpayment due to a change of circumstances; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: provide that an individual will have their FTB Part A daily rate reduced by approximately $2.02 per day if their child does not meet the health check requirements under the Healthy Start for School initiative before their fifth birthday or if they do not comply with the immunisation requirements for their child; and allow the secretary to require that requests for certain exemptions from the immunisation requirements be made in a particular form and manner, contain any information and be accompanied by any documents required by the secretary. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Recovering Unpaid Superannuation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: allow for minimum standards under the National Employment Standards to relate to superannuation contributions; and require employers to provide information to employees in relation to employer superannuation contributions for each pay period;

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to: clarify that amounts contributed to a superannuation fund by an employee or Retirement Savings Account under a salary sacrifice arrangement are not employer contributions; remove the current exemption for employers not to make superannuation contributions to employees who are paid less than $450 in a calendar month; remove certain restrictions on choice of superannuation fund; and provide for a review of employers’ compliance with superannuation payment obligations by the Commissioner of Taxation;

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to create a duty for trustees of superannuation entities to take reasonable steps to notify their members when it could reasonably have expected them to have received a contribution from an employer, but did not; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to require additional information to be provided to the commissioner in annual member information statements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Terminating Enterprise Agreements) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that the Fair Work Commission must not consider it appropriate to terminate an enterprise agreement if the terms and conditions of employment of any employee covered by the agreement would, immediately after the termination, be less favourable than the employee’s terms and conditions of employment immediately before the termination; and invalidate any decision of the commission to terminate an agreement since 22 April 2015, if the decision would not have met the new requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• First Home Super Saver Tax Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 to establish the First Home Super Saver Scheme, the bill imposes a first home super saver tax on individuals who have not entered into a contract to purchase or construct their first home or recontributed the required amount into superannuation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Vacancy Fees) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Tax Integrity) Bill 2017, the bill amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015

  to impose vacancy fees on foreign acquisitions of residential land. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 11 bills to fund the Commonwealth’s contribution to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the bill amends the

  Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Act 1998

  to increase from 47 per cent to 47.5 per cent the rate of family trust distribution tax. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fringe Benefits Tax Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 11 bills to fund the Commonwealth’s contribution to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the bill amends the

  Fringe Benefits Tax Act 1986

  to increase from 47 per cent to 47.5 per cent the rate of fringe benefits tax. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to prohibit officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds; allow applications to be made to the Federal Court for a range of other orders; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take Home Pay of All Workers) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CHRISTENSEN, George, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: ensure that penalty rates in a modern award cannot be varied to make the penalty rate lower than that in force under the award on 30 June 2017; provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect; and ensure that penalty rates cannot be reduced in any future greenfields or non-greenfields enterprise agreement if an employee is worse off than they would have been under the award, by virtue of the fact that the employee works only or mainly on days on which penalty rates are paid. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Fee Streamlining and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015

  to: simplify the commercial fee framework; and increase fees for residential property purchases by 10 per cent for acquisitions of $10 million or less. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum