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• Payment Times Reporting Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Payment Times Reporting (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020, the bill establishes a Payment Times Reporting Scheme which requires businesses and government enterprises with an annual total income of over $100 million to biannually report on their payment terms and practices for their small business suppliers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Dairy Cattle Export Charge) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  to: impose an export charge on the export of dairy cattle; and amend the rate provision to provide for two different rates of charges: a per head charge on dairy cattle and a per kilogram charge on cattle other than dairy cattle. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Amendment (Public Health Contact Information) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: incorporate into primary legislation the provisions of the Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Emergency Requirements—Public Health Contact Information) Determination 2020 to provide privacy protections for users of, and data collected by, the COVIDSafe app; and introduce additional privacy protections. Also repeals the Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Emergency Requirements—Public Health Contact Information) Determination 2020; and provides for the future repeal of certain definitions and Part VIIIA of the

  Privacy Act 1988

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to implement changes to the paid parental leave scheme to enable eligible claimants to claim up to 30 days of parental leave pay (PLP) within 24 months of the birth or adoption of a child, in addition to 12 weeks of PLP within 12 months of the child's birth or adoption; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Fairer Rules for General Treatments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  and

  Private Health Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2015

  to: prevent private health insurers from providing differential rebates for the same treatment provided under the same product in the same jurisdiction; enable the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to intervene in the private health insurance market if private health insurers are inappropriately using information obtained from the Health Industry Claims and Payments Service to influence that market; and prevent private health funds from being both insurers and service providers of general health treatments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Air Pollution) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Implements Australia’s obligations in relation to sulphur emissions from ships under Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships by amending the

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to: enable ships to use non-compliant fuel from 1 January 2020 if they are fitted with a scrubber or other equivalent compliance methods to reduce sulphur from their emissions to below the prescribed limit; prohibit the carriage of high sulphur fuel for propulsion purposes on board a ship from 1 March 2020 (carriage ban); exempt naval and foreign government vessels from the application of the Act; and clarify obligations of fuel oil suppliers to verify fuel quality. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Work Test) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: enable the paid parental leave work test period for a pregnant woman in an unsafe job to be moved from the 13-month period prior to the birth of her child to the 13-month period before she had to cease work due to the hazards connected with her employment and the subsequent risk to her pregnancy; and extend the permissible break in the paid parental leave work test to enable parents to have a gap of up to 12 weeks between two working days and still meet the work test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2019 to partially implement the Treaty Between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (New York, 6 March 2018), the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to remove references to the Joint Petroleum Development Area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Service Amendment (Post-election Report) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  to change the deadline for publishing the post-election report of election commitments, which is prepared and published by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), from before the end of 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for a general election to the later of either 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for the general election to which the report relates or 7 days before the first sitting day of either or both Houses of the Parliament after the general election to which the report relates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2018 to partially implement the Treaty Between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (New York, 6 March 2018), the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to remove references to the Joint Petroleum Development Area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum