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• Social Security Commission Bill 2018 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STORER, Sen Tim 

  Summary

  Establishes the Social Security Commission to advise the Parliament on the minimum levels for social security payments, such that all recipients can meet an accepted contemporary minimum standard of living, and provides for its functions, powers, membership and staffing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sex Discrimination Amendment (Removing Discrimination Against Students) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WONG, Sen Penny 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to remove the capacity of bodies established for religious purposes that provide education to directly discriminate against students on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending the Poverty Trap) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the maximum single rates of newstart allowance, youth allowance (away from home rates only), austudy, sickness allowance, special benefit, widow allowance and crisis payment by $150 a fortnight; standardise the indexation arrangements for certain pensions and allowances; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018

  ; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that these payments are made from monies appropriated by the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that community development program (CDP) participants are subject to the targeted compliance framework; insert exemptions for CDP participants undertaking subsidised employment who are still in receipt of the newstart allowance, youth allowance, disability support pension, special benefit or parenting payment; create exceptions to work refusal failures for CDP participants who refuse subsidised employment and exceptions for participants undertaking subsidised employment who refuse other offers of employment; and create exceptions to unemployment failures for participants who voluntarily leave a suitable subsidised job without a valid reason, or are dismissed from a suitable subsidised job for misconduct;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make contingent amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Security of Critical Infrastructure (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill 2017 to provide for the management of the national security risks of espionage, sabotage and coercion arising from foreign involvement in Australia’s critical infrastructure, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Security of Critical Infrastructure (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017, the bill provides for the management of the national security risks of espionage, sabotage and coercion arising from foreign involvement in Australia’s critical infrastructure by: establishing a Register of Critical Infrastructure Assets; providing the minister with a power to direct a reporting entity or operator of a critical infrastructure asset to do, or refrain from doing, an act or thing within a specified period of time; empowering the secretary to request certain information from reporting entities and operators of critical infrastructure assets; and providing that the minister can privately declare an asset to be a critical infrastructure asset in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Laws Amendment (Strengthening Trustee Arrangements) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017, the bill amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to require registrable superannuation licensees to have at least one-third independent directors and for the Chair of the Board of directors to be one of these independent directors; and

  Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011

  to enable the trustee board of the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation to comply with the new independence requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Caring for People on Newstart) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the single rate of newstart and single independent rate of youth allowance by $110 a week; and standardise the indexation arrangements for certain pensions and allowances; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that these payments are made from monies appropriated by the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: pause for three years the indexation of various income thresholds that apply to certain social security benefits and allowances and the income test free area for parenting payment single; extend the ordinary waiting period to youth allowance (other) and parenting payment; include additional evidentiary requirements for the ‘severe financial hardship’ exemption from the ordinary waiting period; and remove the ability for claimants to serve the ordinary waiting period concurrently with other waiting periods;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable automation of the regular income stream review process; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to maintain the standard family tax benefit (FTB) child rates for two years, from 1 July 2017, in the maximum and base rate of FTB Part A and the maximum rate of FTB Part B. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Diabetes Support) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MUIR, Sen Ricky 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to establish a health care card to provide people diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 with access to medication and peripheral devices; and the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable the Parliament to appropriate funds to support these payments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum