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• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 15 Acts to remove current provisions providing for regulatory regimes and to apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  in relation to: the ability to secure evidence of a contravention when exercising monitoring powers; the age of photographs for identity cards; the time period for the making of a civil penalty order; and the cap on the amount to be stated in an infringement notice; and the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to make amendments consequential on the commencement of the proposed

  Fairer Paid Parental Leave Act 2016

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: create new income support payment and compliance arrangements for individuals living in remote Australia who are eligible for activity tested income support payments including newstart, youth allowance, parenting payment, disability support pension and special benefit; and remove spent provisions in relation to the Northern Territory Community CDEP Transition Payment and the Community Development Employment Project Scheme; and the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Financial Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: amend the financial agreement regime to remove existing uncertainties around requirements for entering, interpreting and enforcing agreements, make changes to the coverage of spousal maintenance matters in agreements, provide for a statement of principles to outline their binding nature, and to reinforce the binding nature of the agreements; strengthen protections from violence in certain procedural matters; strengthen Australia’s response to international parental child abduction; update the arrest powers of the family court; assist the operation of the family law courts; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: enable the receipt of funds from terrorist organisations for legal assistance in certain circumstances; enable control orders to be imposed on persons from 14 years of age; impose an obligation on a person subject to a requirement to wear a tracking device to maintain the tracking device in good operational order; remove the authority of the Family Court of Australia to issue control orders and preventative detention orders (PDOs); clarify the meaning of ‘imminence’ for the purposes of obtaining a PDO; and create a new offence prohibiting conduct advocating genocide;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to establish regimes to monitor the compliance of individuals subject to a control order through search warrants, surveillance device warrants and telecommunications interception warrants;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to furnish security assessments directly to states and territories;

  Classification (Publication, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to broaden the range of conduct that may be considered as advocating the doing of a terrorist act;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify the threshold requirements for the issue of a delayed notification search warrant;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to: broaden protections for national security information in control order proceedings; enable a court to make an order that is inconsistent with regulations made under the Act if the Attorney-General has applied for the order; and enable the regulations to continue to apply to the extent they provide for ways of dealing with national security information in criminal and civil proceedings;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the disclosure of certain information; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  to close the Child Dental Benefits Schedule from 30 June 2016; and establish the Child and Adult Public Dental Scheme to enable capped annual grants of financial assistance to be made to the states and territories for a five-year period from 1 July 2016 to provide dental services to all children and concession cardholder adults; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  and

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015

  ,

  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to authorise the disclosure of specified information for inclusion in the National Cancer Screening Register. Also authorises the transfer of state and territory cervical screening data to the register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, the bill: establishes the National Cancer Screening Register, a national electronic infrastructure for the collection, storage, analysis and reporting of cancer screen program data for the National Cervical Screening Program and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program; authorises the collection, use and disclosure of information for the purposes of the register; creates an offence for the unauthorised disclosure of information; and mandates reporting of screening information to the register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industry Research and Development Act 1986

  to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2016-2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum