Search all bills

TOTAL RESULTS: 543

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Defined Benefit Income Streams) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that the deductible amount for defined benefit income streams, excluding military defined benefits schemes, is capped at a maximum 10 per cent of the gross payments to an individual for the income year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  and

  Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 6) Act 2014

  to increase the assets test free areas and the taper rate by which a pension is reduced once the free areas are exceeded from 1 January 2017; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that people whose pension is nil on 1 January 2017 as a result of the assets test changes will automatically be issued with a Commonwealth seniors health card or a health card. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (No. 2) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to abolish certain incentive payments in relation to income management;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to the operation of the income management regime and vulnerable welfare payment recipients;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments;

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to cease the payment of residential care subsidy for care recipients during a period of leave taken before entering a residential care service; and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to abolish the Aged Care Planning Advisory Committees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: extend and simplify the ordinary waiting period for all working age payments from 1 July 2015; extend youth allowance (other) to 22 to 24 year olds in lieu of newstart allowance and sickness allowance from 1 July 2016; provide for a four-week waiting period for certain persons aged under 25 years applying for youth allowance (other) or special benefit from 1 July 2016; and pause indexation on certain income free and income test free areas and thresholds for three years; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to cease the low income supplement from 1 July 2017; and four Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to remove the obligation for employers to offer a choice of superannuation fund to temporary resident employees, or when superannuation funds merge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Improving the Comcare Scheme) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  in relation to: eligibility requirements for compensation; the financial viability of the Comcare scheme; medical expense payments; the requirements for determining compensation payable; household and attendant care services; the suspension of compensation payments for certain citizens absent from Australia; taking or accruing leave while on compensation leave; the calculation of compensation payments; the compulsory redemption threshold; legal costs for proceedings before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; compensation for permanent impairment; single employer licences; gradual onset injuries and associated injuries; obligations of mutuality; exception of defence-related claims from certain changes; and definitions;

  Military, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  and

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992

  in relation to the vocational nature of rehabilitation services; and return to work outcomes; and

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to provide that decisions relating to compensation paid for detriment caused by defective administration are not subject to review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that certain persons cannot be paid social security payments when they are in psychiatric confinement because they have been charged with a serious offence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 19 Acts and the Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Flight Crew Licensing) Regulation 2014 to amend errors, remove redundant provisions, and renumber text; 37 Acts to: clarify on the face of Acts that the Crown in right of the Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory is bound; and modernise the provisions about whether the Crown is liable to be prosecuted for an offence; 31 Acts to amend provisions which rely on the Consumer Price Index to refer to the ‘index reference period’ rather than the ‘reference base’; the

  Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965

  and

  Public Works Committee Act 1969

  to remove gender-specific language; and the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  and

  Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990

  to: remove spent provisions; and make amendments consequential on their removal. Also repeals six Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Succession to the Crown Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  To effect changes to the law consistent with changes being made to the law in the United Kingdom, the bill: ends the system of male preference primogeniture so that the future order of succession will be determined simply by order of birth; removes the bar on succession for an heir and successor of the Sovereign who marries a Catholic; limits the requirement that the Sovereign consent to the marriage of a descendant of his late Majesty King George the Second to the six persons nearest in line to the Crown; validates some marriages voided by the

  Royal Marriages Act 1772

  of Great Britain; makes consequential amendments to the

  Act of Settlement

  and

  Bill of Rights

  ; and repeals the

  Royal Marriages Act 1772

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to: provide for financial and other arrangements for a Commonwealth authority to exit the Comcare scheme; clarify that premiums for current Commonwealth authorities and entities should be calculated having regard to the principle that current and prospective liabilities should be fully funded by Comcare-retained funds and so much of the consolidated revenue fund as would be available; change the appointment process and membership of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission; and make consequential and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum