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• Education and Training Legislation Repeal Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Australian Research Council (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2001

  ,

  Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’s Skills Needs) Act 2005

  ,

  Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act 2005

  and

  Skilling Australia’s Workforce (Repeal and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005

  . Also makes a consequential amendment to the

  Social Security Act 1991

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment and Infrastructure Legislation Amendment (Stop Adani) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to impose additional obligations on the minister in making decisions on approvals and conditions; and

  Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016

  to: require the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to assess whether an entity is a suitable person for the purposes of providing financial assistance for Northern Australia economic infrastructure; and provide that, in undertaking an assessment, the facility consults with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Crime Commission. Also provides for a review of certain existing approvals under the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  in relation to the Adani group. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: enable the minister to specify additional matters which may be taken into consideration for the fit and proper person requirements for registration purposes; expand the scope of events that a provider must report to education services for overseas students agencies; extend information sharing provisions; and enable a 30-day payment period for late payment penalties;

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: enable the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to take additional matters into account in its regulatory decision-making; introduce a requirement that providers must be fit and proper persons; expand the scope of matters about which providers must notify TEQSA; enable TEQSA to delegate its functions or powers to the Chief Executive Officer; require the accreditation of certain diplomas and certificates; and increase financial viability and transparency requirements; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: prohibit unscrupulous marketing practices and barriers to withdrawal from study; define a ‘genuine student’ for the purposes of reporting and claiming FEE-HELP liabilities; enable the minister to vary conditions of approval for providers and determinations relating to advance payments in certain circumstances; provide for civil penalties in cases of non-compliance; subject the Act to monitoring under the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; provide for more stringent provider application requirements; and increase financial viability and transparency requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to adjust the rate of excise duty on tobacco other than stick form over four years to align it with the amount of duty applying to the average per stick tobacco content of cigarettes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Implements the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ report The 2016 Federal Election: Interim Report on the authorisation of voter communication by amending the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: apply the electoral authorisation requirements to modern communication channels; require all paid electoral advertising to be authorised; require entities subject to the electoral funding and financial disclosure regime to include this information in their political communications; ensure the obligation to authorise electoral and referendum matter primarily rests with those responsible for the decision to communicate it; and replace the current criminal non-compliance regime with a civil penalty regime to be administered by the Australian Electoral Commission;

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  ,

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1993

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation;

  Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to introduce an offence which criminalises false representations in relation to a Commonwealth body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education and Other Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to: establish the office of the VET Student Loans Ombudsman; prescribe the functions of the ombudsman and the manner in which he or she is able to perform those functions; allow for the ombudsman to receive and investigate complaints, investigate complaints on his or her own initiative and refer complaints to other bodies; require the ombudsman to report to VET student loan scheme providers in certain circumstances; require the minister to table reports about VET loan scheme providers in the Parliament if requested to do so by the ombudsman; require the ombudsman to provide annual and certain other reports to the minister; enable the ombudsman to provide evidence to a VET student loan provider principal executive officer that a VET student loan officer of the provider has engaged in misconduct;

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to: allow the minster to specify, by legislative instrument, that the ombudsman is an external dispute resolution scheme for the purposes of the Act; and provide that all approved course providers are deemed to be members of the ombudsman if it is specified as an external dispute resolution scheme by the minister; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: update indexation against appropriation funding caps for existing legislated amounts; and include an additional forward estimate amount for the financial year starting on 1 July 2019. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Enhancing Online Safety for Children Act 2015

  to: amend the short title of the Act to the

  Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015

  ; change the title of the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner to the e-Safety Commissioner; expand the role and function of the commissioner to cover Australians more generally rather than only Australian children; permit the commissioner to disclose a broader class of information to specified Commonwealth authorities; and make consequential amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Levies Legislation Amendment (Honey) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Agriculture and Water Resources Legislation Amendment Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998

  and

  Primary Industries (Excise) Levy Act 1999

  to remove obsolete regulatory requirements in relation to the sale of honey. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Act 1991

  to: expand the functions of the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Efic) to include the provision of services to Commonwealth entities and companies, subject to ministerial approval; and expand Efic’s powers to enable direct lending to a wider range of small to medium sized enterprises. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase the rate of excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products through a series of four annual increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 September 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum