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• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Comprehensive Credit Reporting) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: establish a mandatory comprehensive credit reporting regime to apply from 1 July 2018; and expand the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s powers so it can monitor compliance with the regime; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to impose additional requirements as to where and how data held by a credit reporting body must be stored. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAMMOND, Tim, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: impose a cap on the total payments that can be made under a consumer lease (known as rent-to-buy schemes); require small amount credit contracts (SACCs) (known as payday loans) to have equal repayments and payment intervals; remove the ability for SACC providers to charge monthly fees in respect of the residual term of a loan where a consumer fully repays the loan early; prevent lessors and credit assistance providers from undertaking door-to-door selling of leases at residential homes; introduce anti-avoidance protections; and increase penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Bill 2018, the bill amends the:

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to provide an exemption from the requirement to provide reasons for certain decisions; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation from the operation of the Act in relation to documents in respect of its commercial activities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018, the bill: establishes the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) as a corporate Commonwealth entity to make loans and investments and issue grants, within constitutional limitations, to improve housing outcomes; provides for the appointment, functions and powers of the NHFIC Board, CEO, staff and consultants; enables and requires the minister, by legislative instrument, to give the board directions that together constitute the Investment Mandate; and specifies the arrangements for the NHFIC’s final affairs in relation to maintenance of adequate capital and reserves, payment of dividends, borrowings, Commonwealth guarantee and taxation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: amend existing, and introduce new, espionage offences relating to a broad range of dealings with information, including solicitation and preparation and planning offences; introduce new offences relating to foreign interference with Australia’s political, governmental or democratic processes; replace the existing sabotage offence with new sabotage offences relating to conduct causing damage to a broad range of critical infrastructure that could prejudice Australia’s national security; introduce a new offence relating to theft of trade secrets on behalf of a foreign government; amend existing, and introduce new, offences relating to treason and other threats to national security, such as interference with Australian democratic or political rights by conduct involving the use of force, violence or intimidation; introduce a new aggravated offence where a person provides false or misleading information relating to an application for, or maintenance of, an Australian Government security clearance; eight Acts to make consequential amendments; the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to replace certain existing, and introduce new, offences relating to secrecy of information; 20 Acts to make consequential amendments; the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to amend the definition of a ‘serious offence’ to include the offences provided for by the bill; and the proposed

  Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2017

  to amend the definitions of ‘electoral donations threshold’, ‘general political lobbying’ and ‘political or governmental influence’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Broadcasters Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Transparency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to require the ABC and SBS to report details of annual salaries and allowances of their employees and amounts paid to ‘on-air talent’, in excess of $200 000. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Facilitation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BERNARDI, Sen Cory 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

  and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to remove prohibitions on the construction or operation of certain nuclear installations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Integrity Commission Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a National Integrity Commission as an independent statutory agency which will consist of the National Integrity Commissioner, the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner and the Independent Parliamentary Advisor and provide for: the investigation and prevention of misconduct and corruption in all Commonwealth departments and agencies, and federal parliamentarians and their staff; the investigation and prevention of corruption in the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission; and independent advice to ministers and parliamentarians on conduct, ethics and matters of propriety. Also provides for the establishment of a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Integrity Commission; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits—Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: increase the current statutory price reduction that applies when the first new brand of an existing pharmaceutical item is listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS); extend and introduce statutory price reductions applying on certain anniversaries of an F1 formulary drug being listed on the PBS; introduce ministerial discretion in relation to the application of statutory price reductions in certain circumstances; make minor amendments to price disclosure arrangements; provide new circumstances whereby a new presentation of a brand of pharmaceutical item may be listed without being subject to a new brand statutory price reduction; continue the operation of the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority and the pharmacy location rules beyond 30 June 2020; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment (Make Electricity GST Free) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to remove goods and services tax from the supply of electricity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum