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• Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws—General Law Reform) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends 68 Acts to: extend the meaning of ‘de facto partner’, ‘child’ and ‘parent’ to include same-sex relationships; introduce a tracing rule to identify family relationships; and provide for transitional arrangements, including empowering the Governor-General to make regulations of a transitional nature. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Schools Assistance Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008, the bill provides financial assistance to the states and territories for non-government schools for 2009-2012 to: maintain the current socioeconomic status funding and indexation arrangements to ensure that total recurrent funding for schools will not fall below 2008 levels; provide recurrent funding for Indigenous Supplementary Assistance and an Indigenous Funding Guarantee; provide a remoteness loading; provide funding for capital grants; provide for establishment assistance grants in 2009; implement a school performance information and reporting framework; and require authorities and schools to implement the National Curriculum before the 2012 school year commences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Employment Services Reform) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: implement a job seeker compliance system to apply to certain job seekers in receipt of newstart allowance, parenting payment, youth allowance and special benefit; give effect to employment pathway plans; remove references to the Personal Support Programme; and make minor technical and consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Establishes a Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal to decide and make recommendations on claims for reparation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation (Departing Australia Superannuation Payments Tax) Amendment Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Temporary Residents’ Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill 2008, the bill amends the

  Superannuation (Departing Australia Superannuation Payments Tax) Act 2007

  to increase the departing Australia superannuation payment withholding tax rates by five per cent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to provide for economic security strategy payments (to be made as lump sum payments from 8 December 2008) to age, disability support, wife, widow B and veterans’ service pensioners and people receiving income support supplements, carer payments, and partner, widow and bereavement allowances. Also establishes administrative schemes to provide for payments in certain circumstances; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Saving the Goulburn and Murray Rivers Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BAILEY, Fran, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: prohibit the unauthorised extraction of water from the Murray-Darling Basin; prevent the construction of water infrastructure or river flow control work; ensure the states of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales comply with their obligations to allocate audited, saved water to the Living Murray Initiative and Water for Rivers; and ensure water is not used for any other purpose other than the Living Murray Initiative and Water for Rivers. 

  Bill

• Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide for adjusted taxable income to include income from a superannuation stream with a taxed source (gross superannuation) and income salary sacrificed to superannuation for the purposes of qualification for the Commonwealth seniors health card. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Liquid Assets Waiting Period) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: reduce the length of the liquid assets waiting period by doubling the maximum reserve threshold for liquid assets to $5,000 for singles without dependants or $10,000 for others for a two year period from 1 April 2009; and remove the surrender value of life insurance policies from the definition of ‘liquid assets’ for social security purposes. Also makes technical amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) 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:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: enable a person who qualifies for a carer payment to automatically qualify for a carer allowance; provide that the qualification criteria and assessment process for carer payments for care provided to children with a disability or medical condition will be based on the level of care required; and allow a person to qualify or remain qualified for a carer payment while a child care receiver is in hospital for an unlimited number of days per calendar year; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential changes to the administrative structure for the carer allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum