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  • 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
    Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995
    to ensure that Medicare benefits, nursing home benefits or residential care subsidies are recoverable from persons on Norfolk Island who receive compensation or damages through a judgment or settlement. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • 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
    Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000
    to ensure that the tax on the grant of an approval of a specimen collection centre applies to residents. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • 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
    Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Act 1991
    to extend to Norfolk Island the requirement for fees to be payable for certain purposes under the
    Health Insurance Act 1973

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    25 Sep 2014 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Social Services 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014, the bill amends the:
    Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995
    to enable the recovery of past home care costs under the compensation payment reduction scheme. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    15 May 2014 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health 
    Summary
    The bill: repeals the
    Health Workforce Australia Act 2009
    to abolish Health Workforce Australia; and provides for transitional arrangements, including the transfer of assets, liabilities, interests in land, records and instruments to the Commonwealth, and the transfer of functions and programs to the Department of Health. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    26 Mar 2014 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Health Insurance Act 1973
    to: increase the general threshold of the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) to $2000 from 1 January 2015; and enable the Chief Executive Medicare to determine the manner in which families are contacted to confirm their family composition for EMSN purposes. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    14 Feb 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Higher Education Support Act 2003
    to expand eligibility for OS-HELP assistance and provide additional incentives for university students to undertake part of their course of study in Asia from 1 January 2014. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    14 Feb 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Higher Education Support Act 2003
    to: require the minister to automatically revoke a body’s approval as a higher education or VET provider if registration ceases or a winding up order is made; enable a provider’s business entity name to be changed without having to revoke their approval and re-approve with retrospective application; enable the minister to issue a provider with a compliance notice in certain circumstances; update the calculation of indexation to apply to HELP repayment thresholds; and enable the minister to seek information from the relevant tertiary education regulator for the purposes of administration or enforcing compliance. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    19 Sep 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health and Ageing 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Health Insurance Act 1973
    to permit a trainee medical specialist to perform certain procedures in a private setting under the supervision of a specialist and for the service to attract a Medicare rebate for the supervising specialist;
    Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973
    to enable certain organisations to use the term ‘medicare’ without breaching the Act; and
    Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991
    and
    Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
    to make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    19 Sep 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Higher Education Support Act 2003
    to: enable the minister to determine a category of providers and financial reporting requirements for low-risk VET FEE-HELP applicants and approved providers; enable a managed trial of VET FEE-HELP for specified certificate IV level qualifications; provide that a notice revoking a higher education or VET provider takes effect on the day the notice is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments; consolidate four separate guidelines into one guideline; move the specific date requirement for census dates to the guidelines; and enable the minister and secretary to delegate powers to Australian Public Service employees outside the department. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum