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• 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

• Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2021, the bill: repeals the

  Climate Change Authority Act 2011

  ; and amends the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011

  ,

  Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011

  ,

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  to require Commonwealth entities to consider the potential risks of climate change when performing functions, duties or exercising powers, and include this information in annual reports. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021, the bill: sets a target of achieving net zero emissions by 31 December 2050; aims to reduce net accounting emissions by 60% on 2005 levels by 2030; establishes the Climate Change Commission and provides for its functions, powers, membership and staffing; prescribes a number of guiding principles to which decision makers under the Act must have regard; requires the commission to periodically complete a national climate change assessment (national assessment); requires the minister to prepare a national adaptation plan in response to each national assessment; requires the minister, by legislative instrument, to set an emissions budget for each prescribed emissions budget period; requires the minister to prepare an emissions reduction plan setting out the policies and strategies for meeting each emissions budget; ensures rural and regional Australia shares in the economic benefits from the transition to a net zero emissions economy; and establishes the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation and provides for its powers, proceedings and functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to cancel Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP11) and prohibit any further petroleum exploration in the PEP11. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KELLY, Craig, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to ensure workers have life insurance as part of their superannuation policy that is suitable for dangerous occupations immediately after they start a job which is high risk. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• COAG Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to amend the short title of the Act to the

  Federation Reform Fund Act 2008

  ; the

  COAG Refund Fund Act 2008

  and eight other Acts to update references to the COAG Reform Fund with references to the Federation Reform Fund; 16 Acts to: update references to COAG with references to the First Ministers Council and define it as a body consisting only of, or including, the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers; retain the term Ministerial Council, but amends its definition to a body that consists of the Minister of the Commonwealth and each State and Territory who is responsible for the relevant matter; or amend specific names of councils to the generic Ministerial Council term; and 17 Acts to confirm that where Commonwealth legislation makes provisions to protect from disclosure the deliberations and decisions of the Cabinet and its committees, these provisions apply to the deliberations and decisions of the National Cabinet. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to enable the introduction of the Australian National Aged Care Classification to replace the Aged Care Funding Instrument as the residential aged care subsidy calculation model from 1 October 2022; the Aged Care Act 1997 and Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018 to: provide for nationally consistent pre-employment screening for aged care workers of approved providers to replace existing police checking obligations; enable the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner to make and enforce a code of conduct that will apply to approved providers and their workers, including governing persons; extend the Serious Incident Response Scheme to home and flexible care delivered in a home or community care setting from 1 July 2022; introduce new governance responsibilities for approved providers of Commonwealth-funded aged care; enable the secretary or commissioner to request information or documents from a provider or borrower relating to the use of a loan made with a refundable deposit or accommodation bond and create an offence for a borrower who does not comply with this request; and extend the period of liability for the existing offences for the misuse of refundable accommodation deposits prior to an insolvency event for both providers and key personnel of providers; five Acts to enable information sharing between certain Commonwealth bodies; the

  National Health Reform Act 2011

  and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to expand the functions of a renamed Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority and establish new governance arrangements and appointments processes; and the

  National Health Reform Act 2011

  ,

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018

  to enable the use and disclosure of information required for the authority to perform its new functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Enhanced Risk Management) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: expand pre-arrival reporting requirements for aircraft and vessels; strengthen penalties for non-compliance with negative pratique requirements; create a mechanism to make a human biosecurity group direction; increase civil and criminal penalties for contraventions of certain requirements in relation to goods; amend the process for making certain determinations specifying prohibited, conditionally non-prohibited and suspended goods or granting permits based on risk assessments; and provide legislative authority for expenditure for biosecurity-related programs and activities, such as surveillance programs for pests and diseases. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• No Requirement for Medical Treatment (Including Experimental Injections) Without Consent (Implementing Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KELLY, Craig, MP 

  Summary

  Ensures that Australia complies with Article 6 of the

  Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Australians 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  in relation to: review of the operation of the Act every 7 years; powers and functions of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations; membership information, including applications, member contact details and electronic communication; subsidiaries and joint ventures; size classification criteria for corporations; meeting and reporting requirements; constitutions for, and officers of, corporations; related party transactions; power to exempt corporations from employee-director requirement; the appointment of independent directors; publication requirements; storage of information requirements; alignment of the Act with the Corporations Act; finalising processes; dealing with unclaimed property; external administration and deregistration; minor technical amendments; and review of financial reports; and

  Native Title Act 1993

  to make minor technical amendments in relation to the Native Title Register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum