Assented Bills of previous Parliaments

Search all bills

Keyword(s)

Help icon Using the Bill Introduced date fields will allow you to search bills by the date they were introduced into Parliament.
Clicking the 'Bill Introduced (From)' and 'Bill Introduced (To)' fields displays a calendar.
Alternatively select date by typing into these fields in the format 'dd/mm/yyyy'.

Help icon Using the Bill Progress date fields will allow you to search bills by the dates they progressed through Parliament.
Clicking the 'Bill Progress (From)' and 'Bill Progress (To)' fields displays a calendar.
Alternatively select date by typing into these fields in the format 'dd/mm/yyyy'.

Status
Current Bills
Previous Bills
Type

TOTAL RESULTS: 3785

Sort

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2001 Budget Measures) Bill 2001

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    28 Jun 2001 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs portfolio 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2002 Budget Measures) Bill 2002

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    20 Jun 2002 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    in relation to: indexation of the ceiling rate of income support supplement and service pension; backdating claims for income support supplement for certain war widows and widowers; and family situation rules applicable to income support supplement recipients. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    28 Mar 2007 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    in relation to: disposal of assets; pensioner payments and treatment eligibility for prisoners; indexation of income/assets reduction limits; recovery of social security overpayments; rent assistance; bereavement payments; pension bonuses; rent assistance; and certain income support regimes;
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
    in relation to: service injuries and diseases; and onus of proof;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    to include the income support supplement as a payment not requiring provision of a tax file number;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to: clarify the taxable status of Defence Force Income Support Allowance payments; and
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004
    to repeal redundant provisions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Bill 2001

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    30 Nov 2000 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs portfolio 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2000

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 Jun 2000 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs portfolio 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to: extend access to psychiatric assessment and counselling services to certain Vietnam veterans, dependants and former dependants; extend access to the Veterans’ Children Education Scheme for certain children of Vietnam veterans; exclude ABSTUDY from the income test applied to a partner’s income support pension or supplement; exclude ABSTUDY recipients from receipt of income support pension or supplement; grant veterans eligibility for qualifying service and operational service in relation to certain service in South-East Asia between 1955 and 1975; and align certain pensions and allowances with the arrangements in place for income support payments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further Budget 2000 and Other Measures) Bill 2002

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    21 Feb 2002 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    in relation to: treatment of periodic compensation payments and recovery of compensation debts from payers and insurers; treatment of unrealisable financial assets for the purposes of the assets test hardship provisions and income test deeming provisions; inclusion of small superannuation accounts in definitions relating to income and assets; operation of income streams rules; and rounding of service pensions and income support supplement payments to the nearest cent. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (International Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2008

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    19 Mar 2008 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to: give effect to arrangements for entering into international agreements in relation to the payment of pensions and providing assistance and benefits to eligible persons; authorise the use of funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for those purposes; and align the veterans’ entitlements means test with the social security means test;
    Legislative Instruments Act 2003
    to make minor and technical consequential amendments;
    Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
    to extend the period for which the Commonwealth or Australian Federal Police may be considered as a nuclear test participant for the purposes of the Act; and
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
    to make minor amendments in relation to a definition and clarifying compensation matters. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Statements of Principles and Other Measures) Bill 2007

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    06 Dec 2006 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to: enable the Repatriation Medical Authority to review one or a number of factors in a Statement of Principles; enable benefits and allowances fixed or calculated by regulations or other legislative instruments to be funded from the Consolidated Revenue Fund; clarify and amend the operation of income streams rules;
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
    to correct minor errors and anomalies; and
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    in relation to access to specified treatment for certain veterans and dependents. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1999

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 Jun 1999 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs portfolio 

    Bill

  • Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2000

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 Jun 2000 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs portfolio 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

What is a bill?

A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.

Parliament House Calendar

January 2024

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
31123456
78 Senate91011 Senate1213
14151617 House of Representatives18 Senate1920
21 Senate22 Other23 Other24252627
28 Other29 Other30 Other31 Senate123
  • Senate
  • House of Representatives
  • Both
  • Public Holiday
  • Other

Parliamentary sitting calendar

Go to the full calendar of events

Senator/Member search

Browse all Senators and Members