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• Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Service Homes Act 1918

  to expand eligibility for the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme to current and former members of the Australian Defence Force who have at least one day of continuous full-time service, including reservists and peacekeepers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (International Tax Agreements) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to: give legislative authority to the Convention between the Government of Australia and the Government of the State of Israel for the elimination of double taxation with respect to taxes on income and the prevention of tax evasion and avoidance; and correct an incorrect cross reference to the specific source rule that applies in relation to an earlier agreement with Germany; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to introduce a deemed source of income rule to ensure that Australia can exercise its taxing rights under the convention and future international tax agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (New Commissioner Functions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Act 2006

  ,

  Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006

  ,

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and six other Acts to: transfer certain aged care regulatory functions and powers from the Secretary of the Department of Health to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner in relation to the approval, monitoring and enforcement of regulatory compliance of providers of aged care; and provide for the reconsideration and review of decisions in relation to the new functions of the commissioner. Also provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: remove duplicative requirements for licensees, publishers and controllers to notify the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) of certain changes in control of regulated media assets; remove requirements for certain television broadcasters to apply different classification standards for films when developing industry codes of practice; remove certain classification-related licence conditions on commercial television and community television broadcasting licensees and providers of open narrowcasting services; and amend two statutory publication requirements;

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to permit an NBN corporation to supply non-communications goods to another person in certain circumstances;

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: correct a technical error in relation to the admissibility of certain evidence in court proceedings; remove the requirement for the ACMA to consult with an advisory committee before declaring a submarine cable protection zone; and remove the ability of NBN Co to issue and keep a register of statements that it will not be installing fibre in a new real estate development;

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to restore an inadvertently repealed provision clarifying that certain determinations of the minister are not legislative instruments;

  Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Act 2017

  to: increase the transitional support payment for Network Investments from $632 000 to $819 000; and provide for transitional arrangements;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to amend the statutory information collection powers of the ACMA and the ACCC;

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to make technical amendments; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and three other Acts to enable the development of an industry-based scheme for the management of telephone numbering resources. Also repeals 53 Act spent and redundant Acts; and makes amendments to four Acts to make consequential amendments and repeal redundant provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019 to give effect to the Peru-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and Hong Kong, China, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to introduce new rules of origin to determine preferential rates of duty for certain goods originating from Peru, Indonesia and Hong Kong in accordance with the applicable agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019 to give effect to the Peru-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and Hong Kong, China, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: specify preferential rates of customs duty for certain Peruvian originating goods, Indonesian originating goods and Hong Kong originating goods respectively, namely, alcohol, tobacco, fuel and petroleum products; provide for ‘free’ rates of customs duty; and maintain customs duty rates in relation to certain concessional items. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: increase the combined Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) loan limit to $152 700 for students undertaking eligible aviation courses with approved providers on or after 1 January 2020; enable the minister to determine the aviation courses for which the higher HELP loan limit will apply; reduce indexation on a person’s outstanding accumulated HELP debt while they are teaching in a school in a very remote location of Australia; and provide for all or part of a person’s HELP debt associated with their initial teacher education course to be remitted after they have undertaken an equivalent of four years’ full time work in a very remote location of Australia; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  ,

  Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Act 2018

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to allow the Department of Human Services restricted access to higher education data and VET student loans data in order to administer student benefits. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: expand the circumstances in which reporting entities may rely on customer identification and verification procedures undertaken by a third party; explicitly prohibit reporting entities from providing a designated service if customer identification procedures cannot be performed; prohibit financial institutions from entering into a correspondent banking relationship that permits its accounts to be used by a shell bank; require banks to conduct due diligence assessments before entering, and during, all correspondent banking relationships; and expand exceptions to the prohibition on tipping off to permit reporting entities to share suspicious matter reports and related information with external auditors and foreign members of corporate and designated business groups;

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to replace existing 'designated agency' information sharing provisions (relating to the use and disclosure of AUSTRAC information) with a more general information sharing power;

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  ,

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to create a single reporting requirement for the cross-border movement of monetary instruments;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: clarify that the existence of one Commonwealth constitutional connector is sufficient to establish an instrument of crime offence; deem money or property provided by undercover law enforcement as part of a controlled operation to be the proceeds of crime for the purposes of prosecution; and provide for transitional arrangements; and

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to create a new offence of dishonestly representing conferral of police awards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia’s Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Youth and Sport 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the

  Report of the Review of Australia’s Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review) by amending the:

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  and

  Australian Sports Commission Act 1989

  to abolish the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel; and

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: extend statutory protection against civil actions to national sporting organisations and their staff in the exercise of anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) functions; extend the current protection that allows an entrusted person to resist production of protected information to a court or tribunal to any person in possession of protected information; change the statutory threshold at which the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority CEO may issue a disclosure notice from ‘reasonably believes’ (that a person has information, documents or things that may be relevant to administration of the national anti-doping scheme) to ‘reasonably suspects’; allow a person entitled to inspect or view a document produced pursuant to a disclosure notice to do so only at such times and places as the CEO thinks appropriate; increase the penalty for non-compliance with a disclosure notice from 30 to 60 penalty units; and provide that a person is not excused from complying with the requirement to answer a question, and give information or provide a document or thing on the grounds that doing so may incriminate them or expose them to a penalty. Also makes amendments to three Acts contingent on the commencement of the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Act 2019

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Youth and Sport 

  Summary

  Implements a recommendation of the

  Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review) by amending the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: establish Sport Integrity Australia to bring together the functions of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and the National Integrity of Sport Unit within the Department of Health, as well as the sports integrity functions of Sport Australia; and amend the short title of the Act to the

  Sport Integrity Australia Act 2019

  . Also makes consequential amendments to eight Acts, and makes amendments to three Acts contingent on the commencement of the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia's Anti-Doping Capability) Act 2019

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum