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• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to remove the tax system option for delivery of family tax benefit payments;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable people subject to the Northern Territory income management regime to access the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal appeal mechanisms; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: provide new Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) participants, commencing on or after 1 July 2009, with access to the CDEP program while receiving income support payments; and provide that existing CDEP participants receive CDEP wages from CDEP providers and, in certain circumstances, the CDEP Scheme Participant Supplement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Feb 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment Participation and Childcare 

  Summary

  Amends the:

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

  and

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007

  in relation to the recovery of fee reductions, enrolment advances and business continuity payments paid to approved child care services;

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Act 2010

  to make a technical amendment;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  in relation to the effect of a child’s absence from the care of an approved child care service on the eligibility of an individual for child care benefit for that child;

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

  ,

  Child Care Act 1972

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to clarify the definition of family assistance law;

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

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

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to enable disclosure of information about education and care services for the purposes of the Education and Care Services National Law; and

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

  in relation to: the secretary’s power to refuse a child care service’s approval for the purposes of family assistance law; the requirement to comply with child care laws; and the recalculation of child care benefit fee reductions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Bill 2012

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  Date

  09 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: provide for the schoolkids bonus ($410 per child in primary school and $820 per child in high school) to be paid in January and July each year from 2013; remove the Education Tax Refund (ETR) from the 2011-12 financial year; and provide for a one-off transitional lump sum ETR payment ($409 per child in primary school and $818 per child in high school) in June 2012; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: lower the maximum child age of eligibility for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A from 24 to 21 years of age from 1 January 2012; and pause indexation for the: higher income free area for FTB Part A; FTB Part B income limit; and baby bonus income limit;

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to extend the commencement date for indexation of the paid parental leave income limit;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to require people to test their future work capacity by participating in training or work-related activities in order to qualify for the disability support pension;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable income management to continue in the Cape York area for another 12 months; and

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to clarify that the

  Public Works Committee Act 1969

  does not apply to Aboriginal Land Trusts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: replace the maternity immunisation allowance by making payment of the family tax benefit (FTB) Part A supplement conditional on a child meeting the immunisation requirements; pause the indexation of baby bonus for three years from 1 July 2012 and reset the amount of baby bonus to $5000 per child from 1 September 2012; and prevent an individual from being entitled to FTB as fortnightly instalments on the basis of estimated income in certain circumstances;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to give certain carer allowance recipients, who care for a disabled adult, access to bereavement payments on the death of the care receiver;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to allow access to carer supplement for those carers whose rate of payment is reduced to nil because of employment income received in the fortnight covering 1 July in any given year; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2012

  to reduce the amount of baby bonus for second and subsequent children to $3000; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to provide that family tax benefit continues until the end of the calendar year that a child completes secondary school; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to extend the double orphan pension qualification period for students completing study; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: replace the baby bonus from 1 March 2014 with: an increase to the family tax benefit Part A payment of $2000 for a family’s first child and $1000 for second and subsequent children; and a stillborn baby payment; reduce to one year the claim period for family assistance lump sum claims; provide that certain students who are unable to attend school due to special circumstances are still eligible to receive the schoolkids bonus; enable certain clean energy supplement arrears to be paid straight away; and provide that a member of a couple is entitled to a clean energy advance top-up in certain situations; five Acts to clarify that the baby bonus is only paid at around the time a child first enters a person’s care; the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 to: enable a person to count previous paid parental leave towards satisfying the work test for the purposes of a new claim; and set out how paid parental leave applies to dad and partner pay claims made in prescribed circumstances; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to clarify that customers who end payment on a quarterly basis of clean energy supplement, pension supplement or seniors supplement do not have to wait to be paid arrears; and the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Estimate Tolerance (Transition) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Adjustment of Certain FTB Child Rates) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to provide new adjustment arrangements for the family tax benefit for under 13 and age 13 to 15 child rates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Building on the Child Care Package) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: amend the requirement on child care providers for the issuing of Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) certificates by removing the 50 per cent limit on the number of children that a provider can self-certify for ACCS; enable the minister to prescribe circumstances in which a third party may contribute to meeting the cost of an individual’s child care fees without affecting that individual’s child care subsidies (CCS); enable the minister to prescribe specific circumstances in which CCS can be paid where the child is absent at the start or end of an enrolment; and include the In Home Care rate alongside the rates for other care types, and the capacity for the minister to specify eligibility criteria and care requirements that must be met for access to Commonwealth-subsidised In Home Care places; and

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

  to: increase the number of weeks at which enrolments automatically cease due to non-attendance from 8 to 14 weeks; clarify that certain decisions must first be subject to internal review before application is made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; simplify the process for making claims for CCS; ensure that where an approved provider of child care service is suspended or cancelled, access to CCS is automatically suspended or cancelled; and enable child care providers to request voluntary suspension of their approval in appropriate circumstances. Also makes refinements, corrections and consequential amendments to both Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: provide families earning up to $80,000 a child care subsidy (CCS) rate of 90 per cent, and families earning over $80,000 a CCS rate that tapers down by one percentage point for each additional $5,000 of family income until it reaches zero per cent for families earning $350,000; and provide additional discretion to allow payment of CCS for absences in exceptional circumstances;

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

  to: expand existing financial reporting requirements to all types of approved child care providers; enable the publication of certain information received from large child care providers online; require child care providers to collect gap fees via electronic funds transfer; make good governance an eligibility requirement for provider approval; enable the secretary to specify the information an attendance report by a provider must contain; clarify the interactions with CCS where providers waive gap fees for families in prescribed events or circumstances; and extend the period for passing on fee reduction amounts to families in limited circumstances;

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Subsidy) Act 2021

  to remove the existing higher CCS for families with multiple children (due to commence from July 2023);

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: provide for a base level of 36 subsidised hours of child care per fortnight for First Nations children, regardless of activity levels; permit child care providers to offer a discount on child care fees to staff engaged as educators, without this affecting the amount of CCS payable for the educator; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum