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• Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill: amends 12 Acts to bring 35 existing business registers into the new regime; and

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to introduce a director identification number requirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019, the bill amends: the

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  to make consequential amendments to align these Acts with the operation of the newly created Federal Circuit and Family Court (FCFC); the proposed

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2019

  to make an amendment consequential on the commencement of certain changes enacted by the

  Public Sector Superannuation Legislation Amendment Act 2018

  ; five Acts in relation to making rules of court; 132 Acts to make further consequential amendments; and various Acts to make amendments contingent on the commencement of nine Acts. Also provides for transitional arrangements in relation to the judges and personnel of the FCFC, court administration and appeals; and repeals the

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019, the bill unifies the administrative structure of the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia to create the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, comprised of Division 1 (which will be a continuation of the Family Court) and Division 2 (which will be a continuation of the Federal Circuit Court). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Credit Reporting and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: establish a mandatory comprehensive credit reporting regime to apply from 1 April 2020; provide that a credit provider cannot refuse to provide further credit or reduce a customer's credit limit merely because financial hardship information exists; and provide for transitional arrangements; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: permit reporting of financial hardship information within the credit reporting system; require the Attorney-General to cause an independent review and report of the credit reporting system before 1 October 2023; and make a number of minor amendments relating to the administration of credit reporting. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Measures No. 3) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to provide that the tax concessions available to minors for income from a testamentary trust apply only in respect of income generated from assets of the deceased estate transferred to the testamentary trust (or the proceeds of the disposal or investment of those assets); the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to defer the transitional timeframes for existing providers to comply with the education and training standard requiring completion of an approved degree or equivalent qualification and the passing of an approved exam to 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2022, respectively; and 30 Acts to make minor and technical amendments to laws relating to taxation, superannuation, corporations and credit. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019-20 Bushfire Tax Assistance) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  in relation to the 2019-20 bushfires to: make government support payments to volunteer firefighters and relief and recovery payments and non-cash benefits provided by Australian governments non-assessable non-exempt income; and update the list of deductible gift recipients to include the Australian Volunteers Support Trust and the Community Rebuilding Trust. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to implement changes to the paid parental leave scheme to enable eligible claimants to claim up to 30 days of parental leave pay (PLP) within 24 months of the birth or adoption of a child, in addition to 12 weeks of PLP within 12 months of the child's birth or adoption; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and four other Acts to: provide that, for the purposes of determining a person's rate of payment under social security law, employment income is assessed once it is paid to a social security recipient (replacing the current requirement for recipients to estimate and report the amount of employment income they have earned in a social security instalment period); and enable Services Australia to use data collected by the Australian Taxation Office (primarily information from the Single Touch Payroll system) in connection with the new assessment model. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Reuniting More Superannuation) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  ,

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Act 1999

  to: facilitate the closure of eligible rollover funds by 30 June 2021; and enable the Commissioner of Taxation to reunite amounts he or she receives from eligible rollover funds with a member's active account; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Update (Regulations References) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends 10 Acts to: replace references to specific provisions of regulations with more general means of identifying the provisions, so that the correct links between the contents of regulations and Acts will remain even if the regulations are remade, renamed or renumbered; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum