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• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Work Test) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: enable the paid parental leave work test period for a pregnant woman in an unsafe job to be moved from the 13-month period prior to the birth of her child to the 13-month period before she had to cease work due to the hazards connected with her employment and the subsequent risk to her pregnancy; and extend the permissible break in the paid parental leave work test to enable parents to have a gap of up to 12 weeks between two working days and still meet the work test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Bill 2019

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  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2019 to partially implement the Treaty Between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (New York, 6 March 2018), the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to remove references to the Joint Petroleum Development Area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Service Amendment (Post-election Report) Bill 2018

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  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  to change the deadline for publishing the post-election report of election commitments, which is prepared and published by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), from before the end of 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for a general election to the later of either 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for the general election to which the report relates or 7 days before the first sitting day of either or both Houses of the Parliament after the general election to which the report relates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to: enable the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to determine certain acts which, when performed, would make a person liable to collect and report levies and charges; enable the publishing of certain statistical information; provide for the collection of production or processing information relating to a collection product; and make amendments in relation to the disclosure of certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to increase maximum excess levels for private hospital cover, the bill amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: increase maximum excess levels for products providing an exemption from the Medicare levy surcharge; enable age-based premium discounts for hospital cover; enable private health insurers to cover travel and accommodation costs for regional Australians as part of a hospital treatment; require insurers to maintain up to date information about complying health insurance products in the form of a ‘private health information statement’; require the minister to assess and determine whether or not to include a private hospital in a class of hospitals eligible for second-tier default benefits; and enable insurers to terminate products and transfer affected policy-holders to new products;

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to enable age-based premium discounts to be made available to younger people; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to provide the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman with powers to conduct inspections and audits at the premises of insurers or brokers. Also includes transitional provisions relating to the treatment of benefit limitation period inclusive policies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Sector Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  to enable members of the Judges’ Pensions Scheme to request that they be paid a lump sum amount from the scheme to meet their Division 293 tax liability; the

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  to: ensure that the calculation of any lump sum superannuation guarantee safety-net benefit meets the minimum superannuation guarantee requirements; enable the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Trust to pass a resolution without a meeting; and enable an actuary other than the Australian Government Actuary to provide advice in relation to the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Scheme; five Acts to increase the age from which an eligible child of a deceased superannuation scheme member must be in full time education and remove the requirement for an eligible child to not be ordinarily in employment; the

  Judges and Governors-General Legislation Amendment (Family Law) Act 2012

  to correct a misdescribed reference; and the

  Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011

  to reduce the size of the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation Board from 11 to 9 directors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protection of the Sea Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to implement amendments to Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships by: requiring the master of a ship to have a written declaration made by the shipper in relation to the nature of the cargoes on board prior to discharging the residue of those cargoes; and updating certain references; and

  Protection of the Sea (Shipping Levy Collection) Act 1981

  to remove the need for regulations to prescribe the manner in which a protection of the sea levy notice may be served in particular circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Proceeds of Crime Amendment (Proceeds and Other Matters) Bill 2017

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  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to: expand the unexplained wealth regime to cover wealth that is derived or realised, directly or indirectly, from certain offences; clarify that property becomes ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ where encumbrances, securities, liabilities or improvements on the property are funded using ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ of an offence; clarify that property will only be ‘lawfully acquired’ in situations where the property or wealth is not ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ of an offence; and provide that ‘improvements’ extends to additions to, altering, repairing, restoring, structuring, restructuring or any other change to property or wealth (whether or not it results in an increase in the value of the property or wealth). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Product Emissions Standards (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2017

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  Date

  10 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to introduce national emission standards for new non-road spark ignition engines and equipment, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to clarify that emissions-controlled products imported or exported in contravention of the proposed

  Product Emissions Standards Act 2017

  are not forfeited to the Crown under section 229 of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Product Emissions Standards (Customs) Charges Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to introduce national emission standards for new non-road spark ignition engines and equipment, the bill imposes a charge on the import of emissions-controlled products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum