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• High Seas Biodiversity Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to implement Australia’s obligations under the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Reverse Job-Ready Graduates Fee Hikes and End 50k Arts Degrees) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FARUQI, Sen Mehreen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to provide that the maximum student contribution amounts for places in certain units of study revert to what those amounts would have been on 1 January 2026 if the amendments made by the

  Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Act 2020

  had not commenced. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  BRAGG, Sen Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Housing Australia Act 2018

  to provide that certain directions about the performance of Housing Australia’s functions are subject to disallowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to change the timeframe for making claims relating to bulk-billed Medicare and dental services from 2 years to 1 year;

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to update investigative powers in relation to Medicare fraud offences;

  National Health Act 1953

  to streamline pharmacy approval processes;

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable the department to manage and alleviate the consequences of therapeutic goods shortages; and support compliance and enforcement activities undertaken in relation to unlawful therapeutic and vaping goods; and

  Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023

  to clarify the intended operation of certain provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (End Dirty University Partnerships) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FARUQI, Sen Mehreen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: require higher education providers who receive Commonwealth funding to disclose existing partnerships with, or investments in, defined prohibited entities and divest from these partnerships and investments within a 6-month period; and prohibit higher education providers from appointing to their governing bodies any individual that has investments in a prohibited entity or is a member of the board of a prohibited entity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BRAGG, Sen Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Housing Australia Future Fund Act 2023

  to prohibit the Housing Australia Future Fund from investing in housing-related assets or entities financed by the Construction and Building Unions Superannuation Fund. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration of UNDRIP) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  THORPE, Sen Lidia 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011

  to amend the definition of ‘human rights’ to include the rights and freedoms outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
  ANTIC, Sen Alex
  BABET, Sen Ralph 

  Summary

  The bill: clarifies that children born alive are persons; requires health practitioners to provide medical care, treatment and statistics on children born alive as a result of terminations; and provides that the mother of a child born alive is not liable to prosecution for an offence in respect of that child. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: broaden the remit of the Professional Services Review (PSR) to make agreements with any person under review who acknowledges inappropriate practice (including bodies corporate); and introduce new sanctions for persons who fail to respond to a notice to produce documents to the Director of the PSR or to a PSR Committee, or fail to appear at hearings;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  to provide for: the recovery of interest payable on certain debts; the application of administrative penalties to Shared Debt Recovery Scheme debts; the use of financial information gathering powers in debt recovery; Administrative Appeal Tribunal reviews where one or more garnishee notices are issued in relation to certain debts; and clarification of the Commonwealth's ability to recover debts from a person or the estate of a person. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Transparent Patient Outcomes) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GRIFF, Sen Stirling 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable the minister to make rules to establish and maintain a public register of statistical information relating to surgical procedures and patient outcomes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Targeted Sanctions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  The bill: provides for either House of Parliament, or certain parliamentary committees, to request the minister to table a statement on whether autonomous sanctions will be applied to persons that are responsible for serious human rights abuses or corruption; requires the minister to table in both Houses a statement on whether autonomous sanctions will be applied to certain persons responsible for the coup in Myanmar in 2021; and provides for a review of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Australian Freedoms) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BERNARDI, Sen Cory 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011

  to: include a definition of 'Australian freedoms'; require the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights to explicitly consider 'Australian freedoms' in its examinations of legislation; and require statements of compatibility for bills and disallowable legislative instruments to provide certain information in relation to 'Australian freedoms'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Bonded Medical Programs Reform) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to introduce a statutory scheme (the Bonded Medical Program) which consolidates the existing Bonded Medical Places and Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship schemes under a single legislative framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Voluntary Student Services and Amenities Fee) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGRATH, Sen James 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to remove the compulsory student services and amenities fee levied on all higher education students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Services Amendment (Photographic Identification and Fraud Prevention) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to require photographic identification on all Medicare cards to reduce fraudulent usage of Medicare cards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Halal Certification Transitional Authority Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BERNARDI, Sen Cory 

  Summary

  Establishes for a period of five years a Halal Certification Transitional Authority that may issue halal certificates to authorise the holders to certify that certain foods within the scope of their halal certificate are halal. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FARRELL, Sen Don 

  Summary

  Establishes a High Speed Rail Planning Authority to advise on, plan and develop high speed rail on the east coast of Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  to: amend section 18C, which prohibits offensive behaviour based on racial hatred, to replace the words ‘offend’, ‘insult’ and ‘humiliate’ with ‘harass’ (resulting in the formulation ‘harass or intimidate’); and provide that an assessment of whether an act is reasonably likely to harass or intimidate a person or group of persons is made against the standard of a reasonable member of the Australian community;

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to: replace the defined term of ‘alleged unlawful discrimination’ with ‘alleged acts, omissions or practices’; repeal the requirement for the President and commissioners to act in a way that promotes the collegiate nature of the Australian Human Rights Commission; provide that certain powers to report to the minister must be exercised by the President; expressly provide that the President is responsible for managing the administrative affairs, and is the accountable authority, of the commission; remove mandatory requirements to report to the minister on certain matters and replace them with discretionary reporting powers; provide that the President cannot delegate certain powers; introduce new grounds on which the commission or the President may or must close inquiries or terminate complaints; require the commission to act fairly in the performance of its inquiry functions; increase the threshold for lodging complaints; require the President to consider whether a complaint should be terminated on certain grounds before starting to inquire into the complaint; require the President to act fairly in his or her handling of complaints; allow the President to terminate complaints lodged more than six months after the alleged unlawful discrimination; require the inclusion of a note about the costs jurisdiction of the Federal Court (FC) and the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) in a notice of termination; prescribe procedures for voluntary conciliation conferences; and provide that applications may be made to the FC or FCC in relation to complaints terminated on certain grounds; and

  Native Title Act 1993

  to replace the mandatory requirement for the Social Justice Commissioner to provide an annual report to the minister with a discretion to report when he or she sees fit. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (New Zealand Citizens) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CARR, Sen Kim 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to enable certain New Zealand citizens who are Special Category Visa holders to be eligible for HELP assistance from 1 January 2016. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Funding for Certain Types of Abortion) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to provide that Medicare benefits are not payable for medically induced terminations carried out on the basis of gender. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Dental Services) Bill 2012 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BUSHBY, Sen David 

  Summary

  The bill: specifies actions the minister must take when a dental practitioner who has provided a dental service and claimed a Medicare benefit payment is required to repay the benefit because certain administrative processes have not been undertaken; and requires the minister to table a report in Parliament detailing the actions taken. Also amends the Health Insurance (Dental Services) Determination 2007 to allow for circumstances where a Medicare benefit can be paid where a written quotation was not provided prior to dental treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Other Measures) Bill 2011 [2012]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide that the minister retains the power to decide an application for approval as a higher education provider although the required timeframe may have expired; require VET providers to notify the minister in writing of events which may affect their ability to comply with quality and accountability requirements; provide for the authorisation of certain uses and disclosures of information; allow the secretary to revoke or vary any determination made to pay an advance to a VET provider in certain circumstances; clarify that a VET provider must provide statistical and other information although an approved form of provision has not been specified; and make administrative arrangements relating to the assessment of an individual’s higher education loan program debt. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to make administrative changes to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP programs by: requiring the minister to be satisfied that a body corporate is ‘fit and proper’; providing flexibility in the ‘principal purpose’ requirements; enabling the minister to give qualified approvals; providing for procedural fairness before a provider’s approval is suspended; and including new decisions which are subject to review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Table Items) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CORMANN, Sen Mathias
  FIELDING, Sen Steve
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to provide that if an item in the general medical services table is disallowed under the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  , the corresponding item in the previous regulations is taken to apply from the time of disallowance. 

  Bill

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 3) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to: the definition of “Student Load”; quality and accountability requirements; guidelines for incidental fees and fees in respect of overseas students; compliance audits on the operation of certain higher education providers; and Commonwealth supported students; and make a technical amendment to correct a drafting error;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 2) Act 2005

  to reflect the renaming of Open Learning Australia to Open Universities Australia; and

  Australian National University Act 1991

  to repeal an obselete heading. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health and Ageing Legislation Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to: increase the maximum number of members of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee; provide for payment and/or waiver of recovery of 90 per cent of the value of pharmaceutical benefits supplied from an unapproved relocated pharmacy where the pharmacist has subsequently obtained approval; allow an agent to make and sign an application for a pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS) safety net concession or entitlement card; provide that certain ministerial determinations apply to the supply of pharmaceutical benefits by hospitals in the same way as they do to supply by pharmacies; clarify the decision-maker’s discretion to cancel approvals to supply pharmaceutical benefits; and allow a medical services provider to send claims directly to the Health Insurance Commission;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Health Insurance Commission Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that special supply arrangements can be used for the funding particular medicines not available through the PBS;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to restore specialist recognition status for certain specialists; and ensure that overseas trained doctors do not receive Medicare benefits for assisting at operations unless they have an exemption or have committed themselves to providing services in districts of workforce shortage; and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to make technical amendments and corrections. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  to clarify the circumstances under which medicare and residential care benefits paid to compensation claimants can be recovered; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to expand the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to include previous foreign immunisation of children where these are notified to the Health Insurance Commission by recognised immunisation providers or prescribed bodies; and update certain definitions. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995

  and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998

  in relation to the obligations of registered organisations; and to remove the rule change assessment process which requires registered health benefits organisations to submit all rule changes for government approval and replace it with a system of monitoring and compliance; and

  National Health Act 1953

  to: increase the powers of the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman (PHIO) to investigate complaints and resolve disputes; provide for an annual “state of the health funds” report by the PHIO; and make amendments to the lifetime health cover provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Commission Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Industry Measures) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  in relation to: gap cover schemes; the obligations of health funds to provide information to the public and the Health Insurance Commission; rationalising the structure of the Act; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to transfer responsibility for registration of billing agents from the Private Health Insurance Administration Council to the Health Insurance Commission. Also contains transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Minimum Proficiency Requirements for Medical Practitioners) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 May 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill

• Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing for Property Offences) Bill 2000 [2002]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Sep 2000 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Seeks to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child by providing that a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory must not require a court to sentence a person (including a person who is under 18 years of age) to imprisonment or detention for a property offence. Also contains certain application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill

• Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 1999 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Higher Education Funding Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1996 [1998]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 1996 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs portfolio 

  Bill

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to enable the publication of information on medical fees charged by medical practitioners and likely out-of-pocket costs; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to require private health insurers to apply to the minister for approval to change the premiums charged under a complying health insurance product. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Prescribing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable authorised nurse prescribers to prescribe certain pharmaceutical benefits under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 2) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Migration Act 1958

  and

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to: enable the Department of Home Affairs, including the Australian Border Force, to collect facial images from persons that align with international standards and current biometric technology; and validate facial images that were provided by a person or collected by the department in the past and any action taken in relation to those images; and

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to remove certain residency barriers to Australian citizenship for person engaging in activities of benefit to Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: provide for the automation of Medicare provider numbers; remedy minor issues; and amend the Bonded Medical Program in relation to repayment of education costs, Medicare benefits and Bonded Medical Program rules;

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to ensure the validity of registration and claims processes for the Private Health Insurance Rebate Premiums Reduction Scheme;

  Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Assignment of Medicare Benefits) Act 2024

  to delay the commencement of assignment of Medicare benefits arrangements; and

  Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide that the rules of natural justice do not apply in relation to third country reception arrangements with a foreign country; and responds to the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court in

  AJN23 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

  (2024) 304 FCR 586; [2024] FCAFC 103 by validating certain visa decisions made on or before 8 November 2023. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Fair Study and Opportunity) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  LE, Dai, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to reduce the maximum student contribution amount for a place in a unit of study relating to subjects specified as ‘society and culture’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) (Repeal) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Removes fees imposed on the pathology sector for the approval of certain categories of pathology accreditation applications by repealing the

  Health Insurance (Pathology (Fees) Act 1991

  and

  Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Act 2015

  . Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to change the timeframe for making claims relating to bulk-billed Medicare and dental services from 2 years to 1 year;

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to update investigative powers in relation to Medicare fraud offences;

  National Health Act 1953

  to streamline pharmacy approval processes;

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable the department to manage and alleviate the consequences of therapeutic goods shortages; and support compliance and enforcement activities undertaken in relation to unlawful therapeutic and vaping goods; and

  Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023

  to clarify the intended operation of certain provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record—Sharing by Default) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  My Health Records Act 2012

  ,

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and 5 other Acts to establish a framework which requires key health information to be shared with the My Health Record system, subject to certain exceptions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) (Repeal) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Removes fees imposed on the pathology sector for the approval of certain categories of pathology accreditation applications by repealing the

  Health Insurance (Pathology (Fees) Act 1991

  and

  Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Act 2015

  . Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Legislation Amendment (Fair Share for Regional Housing) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAINES, Helen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Housing Australia Act 2018

  and

  Housing Australia Future Fund Act 2023

  to: ensure that financial assistance provided by Housing Australia, including through the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), can be distributed to regional, rural and remote Australia and to local governing bodies and government-owned utility providers for critical enabling infrastructure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Fair Study and Opportunity) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LE, Dai, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to reduce the maximum student contribution amount for a place in a unit of study relating to subjects specified as ‘society and culture’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Housing Australia Act 2018

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Help to Buy Scheme 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Help to Buy Bill 2023 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Establishes a Commonwealth shared equity program (Help to Buy Scheme) to be administered by Housing Australia that will assist low to middle income earners to purchase new or existing homes 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Assignment of Medicare Benefits) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to update the ‘assignment of Medicare benefit’ requirements for bulk billed and simplified billing services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to remove the requirement for a collaborative arrangement between an eligible nurse practitioner or eligible midwife and a medical practitioner to enable that midwife or practitioner to prescribe Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines or provide services under Medicare. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Help to Buy Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Housing Australia Act 2018

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Help to Buy Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Help to Buy Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill establishes a Commonwealth shared equity program (Help to Buy Scheme) to be administered by Housing Australia that will assist low to middle income earners to purchase new or existing homes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review Scheme No. 2) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  in relation to the Professional Services Review (PSR) Scheme by amending the requirements for qualification of committee members, clarifying that references to a practitioner include a practitioner who is not currently registered, clarifying the requirements for a person under review notifying a committee that they are unable to attend a hearing due to medical reasons, and enabling the Director to extend the 12-month review period in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: expand eligibility for places in demand driven higher education courses to First Nations students; and remove the current requirement that students must pass 50 per cent of the units they study to remain eligible for a Commonwealth supported place and FEE-HELP assistance and instead require higher education providers to support students to successfully complete the units of study in which they are enrolled. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 [No. 2] and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023 [No. 2], the bill establishes the Housing Australia Future Fund to make grants, and enable Housing Australia to make grants and loans, in relation to acute housing needs, social housing or affordable housing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Terminates the lease in respect of Block 26, Section 44 in the Division of Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review Scheme) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: remove the requirement for the Australian Medical Association to agree to the appointment of the Director of the Professional Services Review (PSR); amend consultation requirements for appointing other statutory office holders of the PSR to enable consultation with relevant peak bodies directly; establish the statutory office of Associate Director of the PSR; remove the requirement for the Chief Executive Medicare to consult with stakeholder groups prior to issuing a notice to produce documents; and make minor amendments to update the wording of provisions relating to the termination of certain appointments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: remove the age limit on eligibility for Medicare benefits for treatment of cleft and craniofacial conditions; enable Services Australia to use a computerised system to manage the Register of Approved Placements; and require bonded participants of the Bonded Medical Program to complete their return of service obligations in an amount of weeks rather than years and make related amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023, the bill establishes the Housing Australia Future Fund to make grants, and enable Housing Australia to make grants and loans, in relation to acute housing needs, social housing or affordable housing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia’s Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: allow the minister to make grants to support arrangements to increase industry-led study and postgraduate research, and to assist higher education providers to undertake research that progresses to a state of commercial readiness the development of technologies and services in sectors aligned with areas of national priority (the Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) program); establish a governance framework to support the delivery of the AEA program; and provide for the protection, disclosure and use of AEA program information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: amend the definition of 'grandfathered student' to include students undertaking an honours course related to a course of study commenced before 1 January 2021; clarify that a student whose course of study is discontinued by their provider and transfers to a new course will be treated as a grandfathered student; enable the minister to make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature; and enable the waiver of indexation on HELP debts for certain health practitioners while they are completing eligible work in rural or remote areas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• High Speed Rail Authority Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Establishes the High Speed Rail Authority as a statutory agency to advise on, plan and, with the consent of states and territories, construct a high speed rail system within Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia’s Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: allow the minister to make grants to support arrangements to increase industry-led study and postgraduate research and to assist higher education providers to undertake research (the Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) program) which progresses the development of technologies and services to a state of commercial investor readiness in sectors aligned with areas of national priority; establish a governance framework to support the delivery of the AEA program; and provide for the protection, disclosure and use of AEA program information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Administrative Actions) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable Services Australia to use computer programs to manage the Register of Approved Placements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: list Avondale University as a Table B provider; amend the definition of a 'grandfathered student' to include students undertaking an honours course that is related to a course of study they commenced before 1 January 2021; enable the minister to make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature; and allow for grants to be made that will support the translation and commercialisation of research by higher education providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021, the bill amends the:

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  ,

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  and

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  to amend or insert objects clauses to provide that, in giving effect to the objects of each Act, regard must be had to the indivisibility and universality of human rights and their equal status in international law, and the principle that every person is free and equal in their dignity and rights;

  Charities Act 2013

  to provide that otherwise charitable entities that engage in lawful activities promoting a traditional view of marriage are undertaking those activities for the public benefit and not contrary to public policy; and

  Marriage Act 1961

  to allow religious educational institutions to refuse to provide facilities, goods or services in relation to the solemnisation of a marriage in accordance with their religious beliefs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: broaden the remit of the Professional Services Review (PSR) to make agreements with any person under review who acknowledges inappropriate practice (including bodies corporate); and introduce new sanctions for persons who fail to respond to a notice to produce documents to the Director of the PSR or to a PSR Committee, or fail to appear at hearings;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  to provide for: the recovery of interest payable on certain debts;, the application of administrative penalties to Shared Debt Recovery Scheme debts; the use of financial information gathering powers in debt recovery, Administrative Appeal Tribunal reviews where one or more garnishee notices are issued in relation to certain debts; and clarification of the Commonwealth's ability to recover debts from a person or the estate of a person. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Enhancing the Bonded Medical Program and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable eligible legacy scheme participants to apply for an extended compliance determination to allow them an additional period of time to complete their return of service obligation; allow a person, in the event of serious disability or death, to cease to be a bonded participant under the program, without penalty; apply administrative penalties when bonded participants fail to produce information or documents within prescribed timeframes; and enable administration of inadvertent and minor breaches of Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship contracts with the Commonwealth. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CHRISTENSEN, George, MP 

  Summary

  Creates duties for health practitioners to provide medical care or treatment to children born alive as a result of terminations and to report births of children born alive as a result of terminations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: extend the FEE-HELP loan fee exemption currently in place for units with a census date between 1 April and 30 June 2021 by a further six months, to 31 December 2021; and apply a 20 per cent FEE-HELP loan fee for units with a census date on or after 1 January 2022. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  to: implement Australia's obligations under the Basel Convention on the Control or Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  and insert new audit powers; update existing criminal offences and introduce new strict liability offences and civil penalties to cover non-compliance relating to the export, import and transit of hazardous waste; increase penalties for offences relating to the export, import and transit of hazardous waste and introduce new aggravated offences where the non-compliance results in injury or damage to human beings or the environment; authorise information sharing between Commonwealth, state and territory governments; introduce recordkeeping requirements and information gathering powers to protect, use and disclose information; and replace the Hazardous Waste Technical Group with a requirement to consult with persons with appropriate expertise; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Fees) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to remove the requirement for new specialists and consultant physicians to pay a $30 prescribed fee when applying for access to higher Medicare rebates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance Administration) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable the Commonwealth to recover amounts overpaid for incorrectly claimed Medicare benefits or payments where a false or misleading statement has led to a payment that should not have been made. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Freedom of Speech) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to insert a new definition of ‘academic freedom’ and replace references to 'free intellectual inquiry' with the allied concepts of 'freedom of speech' and 'academic freedom'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Administration) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to remove the requirement for the Medicare Benefits Schedule services tables to cease annually;

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to remove redundant provisions and definitions; and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: implement the recommendations of the

  Review of the Higher Education Provider Category Standards

  ; implement an outstanding recommendation of the

  Review of the impact of the TEQSA Act on the higher education sector

  to refer to the Threshold Standards as a single unified framework; include reference to the new Australian Qualifications Framework qualification type 'undergraduate certificate' in the definition of 'higher education award'; allow the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to extend the period of a provider's registration or course accreditation more than once; allow review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of a decision by TEQSA not to change the category in which a provider is registered; enable TEQSA to assume control of higher education student records from a registered higher education provider in the event the provider ceases operations; and protect the use of the word 'university' in Australian internet domain names; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to confirm that higher education providers can use Indigenous student assistance grants to assist prospective, as well as existing, Indigenous students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Legislation Amendment (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection) Bill 2020 to expand the Tuition Protection Service to include domestic up-front fee paying higher education students, the bill imposes the up-front payments tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by providers and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: redesign the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) funding clusters and the Commonwealth contribution amounts (CCAs); provide that higher education providers continue to receive the same amount of CGS funding for 'grandfathered students' enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place (CSP) where the current maximum student contributions amounts (SCAs) will apply for units those students enrol in after 1 January 2021; change the way grants are paid to higher education providers for CSPs; remove the broad exclusion of 'work experience in industry' units of study from CGS funding; change the maximum SCAs for a place in a unit of study to reflect the changes to funding clusters and CCAs; ensure that 'grandfathered students' do not have to pay the higher maximum SCA for a unit of study they enrol in after 1 January 2021 where the SCA for that unit would otherwise increase; provide legislative authority for the National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund and allow for the transition arrangements required to implement the Indigenous, Regional and Low Socio-Economic Status Attainment Fund; introduce student protection and provider integrity requirements; reduce, for units of study with a census date on or after 1 January 2021, the loan fee for students obtaining a FEE-HELP loan for an undergraduate court of study at a non-Table B Provider from 25 per cent to 20 per cent; and make minor technical amendments;

  Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Act 2009

  to remove saving arrangements for education and nursing students;

  Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2017

  to extend quality and accountability requirements to all higher education providers (including universities); and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to reduce from six to three the number of months a student living away from home must be receiving eligible student support payments before being eligible to receive Fare Allowance for a return journey home. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Continuing the Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: continue the Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner beyond 1 July 2020; and amend the functions of the office. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (General Practitioners and Quality Assurance) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: simplify administrative processes for recognition as a specialist general practitioner (GP) for Medicare purposes; align Medicare eligibility for GPs with the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme registration requirements; and replace references to repealed legislation in relation to the definition of a quality assurance activity under the Qualified Privilege Scheme. Also repeals the

  Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2010

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching and Other Matters) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable information held by the Chief Executive Medicare (CEM) to be subject to data-matching for the purposes of ensuring the integrity of medicare programs including the Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; and enable the CEM to authorise a Commonwealth entity to carry out data matching for the same purposes on the CEM’s behalf; four Acts to make consequential amendments; and the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to enable services involving a professional attendance provided under certain laws administered by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to be considered for a prescribed pattern of services, but not unacceptable conduct, for the purposes of the Professional Services Review scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill imposes the HELP tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by providers, and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2019, the bill imposes an annual charge on all higher education providers whose students are entitled to HECS-HELP assistance or FEE-HELP assistance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: implement an application fee for applications for approval as higher education providers whose students are entitled to FEE-HELP assistance; and provide for the collection and administration of the annual charge on higher education providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Bonded Medical Programs Reform) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to introduce a statutory scheme (the Bonded Medical Program) which consolidates the existing Bonded Medical Places and Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship schemes under a single legislative framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALBANESE, Anthony, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a High Speed Rail Planning Authority to advise on, plan and develop high speed rail on the east coast of Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP Student Protection) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide for a student’s FEE-HELP balance to be re-credited where the student incurred the VET FEE-HELP debt as a result of inappropriate conduct by VET providers or their agents, including where that conduct occurred prior to 1 January 2016; enable the Commonwealth to recover from the VET provider an amount that is equivalent to the amount remitted, in limited circumstances; and make consequential amendments; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to: provide for the VET Student Loans Ombudsman to make recommendations in relation to the re-crediting of FEE-HELP balances; and make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2018, the bill imposes an annual charge on all higher education providers whose students are entitled to HECS-HELP assistance or FEE-HELP assistance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: implement an application fee for applications for approval as higher education providers whose students are entitled to FEE-HELP assistance; and provide for the collection and administration of the annual charge on higher education providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000

  to enable the tax payable on the grant of an approval of an Approved Specimen Collection Centre to be calculated for approvals granted for periods of more than one year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: introduce a shared debt recovery scheme that provides that, where contractual or other arrangements exist between a practitioner and an employer or corporate entity, both may be held responsible for the repayment of a compliance debt; and clarify that the jurisdiction of the Professional Services Review extends to officers of organisations that engage Medicare practitioners as contractors;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  in relation to record-keeping requirements, administrative penalties and debt-recovery arrangements; and

  National Health Act 1953

  to: enable the recovery of certain statutory debts by giving a garnishee notice; and introduce requirements for pharmacists to provide documents to substantiate claims. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that, when an unlawful non-citizen is in the process of being removed to another country and the removal is aborted, or is completed but the person is not permitted entry into the receiving country, and as a direct result the person is returned to Australia, then that person has a lawful basis to return to Australia without a visa; provide that, when such a person does return to Australia without a visa, the person will be taken to have been continuously in the migration zone for the purposes of certain sections of the Act which bar the person from making a valid application for certain visas; and allow the department to use an online account to provide clients with certain legally required communications;

  Customs Act 1901

  to: allow the department to make a recoverable payment to a person who is entitled to it; and make technical amendments; and

  Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978

  to insert a new head of power so that regulations can prescribe the charging and recovery of fees for, and in relation to, the payment of passenger movement charge or an amount equal to the charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (National Regional Higher Education Strategy) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: require the minister to develop a National Regional Higher Education Strategy; and revise the strategy every four years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide a new minimum repayment income of $44 999 for the compulsory repayment of Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts; replace the current repayment thresholds and introduce additional repayment thresholds; index HELP repayment thresholds to the consumer price index instead of average weekly earnings; and introduce, from 1 January 2019, a combined lifetime limit on the amount a student can borrow under HELP of $150 000 for students studying medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses, and $104 440 for other students;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to align repayment thresholds for the Student Financial Supplement Scheme (SFSS) compulsory repayments with the HELP thresholds from the 2019-20 financial year;

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  and

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  to provide that, from the 2019-20 financial year, SFSS debts will be repaid after HELP debts are discharged rather than concurrently; and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs and Integrity Agencies Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  ,

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  and

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: give effect to the allocation of certain ministerial powers following the establishment of a new Home Affairs portfolio; and make changes relating to the Attorney-General’s oversight of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: increase the maximum student contributions by 1.8 per cent for four years from 2018; adjust the Commonwealth contribution amounts from 2018 to 2021 to reflect the increased student contribution amounts; apply an efficiency dividend of 2.5 per cent per annum to grants under the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) in 2018 and 2019; extend the medical student loading to include veterinary science and dentistry units of study from 2018; expand the demand driven funding system to include approved sub-bachelor courses at public universities from 2018; require enabling course students to pay a student contribution amount for any units of study with census dates on or after 1 January 2018; allocate enabling courses on a cyclical basis through a three-year tender process from 2019; introduce performance-contingent funding under the CGS; reduce the Higher Education Loan Program minimum repayment income to $41 999 and replace the current repayment thresholds with new ones, including additional repayment thresholds and rates; index repayment thresholds to the consumer price index rather than average weekly earnings; restructure the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program to include new student loading for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, annual performance funding and grants for a National Priorities Pool; and make minor and technical amendments;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to: extend access to student loans to most Australian permanent residents and most New Zealand citizens while removing their entitlement to a Commonwealth supported place from 1 January 2018; and preserve current eligibility arrangements for several cohorts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (National Rural Health Commissioner) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: provide for the appointment and functions of a National Rural Health Commissioner to develop and advise the minister responsible for rural health on a National Rural Generalist Pathway; provide for the commissioner’s office to cease on 1 July 2020, when the commissioner’s functions will be complete; abolish the Medical Training Review Panel; and remove the requirement for reviews of the Medicare provider number legislation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Levy Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  to: enable full cost recovery under the hazardous waste permit scheme; remove the requirement for particulars of certain export applications to be specified in the regulations prior to a decision being made; remove the requirement to specify the place of export in a Basel export permit; remove the $8000 cap on the prescribed fee amount for permit applications; enable indexation of permit fees; provide that certain permit and application information currently required to be published in the Commonwealth Gazette will instead be published on the Department of Environment and Energy’s website; introduce new permit and notification arrangements for the bringing of hazardous waste into Australia; enable the minister to delegate any or all of his or her functions and powers under the Act to Executive Level 2 employees; remove the text of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; provide that permit applications must be accompanied by a levy; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Levy Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2016, the bill imposes a levy on hazardous waste permit applications under the

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALBANESE, Anthony, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a High Speed Rail Planning Authority to advise on, plan and develop high speed rail on the east coast of Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum