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• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: remove the trial parameters to establish the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) as an ongoing program; establish the Northern Territory and Cape York areas as CDC program areas and transition income management participants in these areas to the CDC program in 2021; remove a current exclusion to enable people in the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay program area to voluntary participate in the CDC program; enable a voluntary participant to continue to volunteer for the CDC even if they no longer reside in a program area; enable the secretary to advise a community body when a person has exited the CDC program; enable the minister to determine decision-making principles for the purposes of determining whether a person can demonstrate reasonable and responsible management of the person's affairs; enable the secretary to review a wellbeing exemption or exit determination in certain circumstances and remove the determination as a result of such a review; enable the secretary to issue and revoke a notice informing a person that they are a CDC program participant; remove the requirement that an evaluation be conducted by an independent expert of a review of the CDC program; and extend the sunset date for income management in Cape York from 30 June 2020 to 31 December 2021. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (Aged Care Recipient Classification) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to: introduce an additional, discretionary procedure for classification of recipients of residential aged care and some kinds of flexible care from 1 March 2021; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 2) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to amend the arrangements relating to the payment of home care subsidy to approved providers by providing that the Commonwealth will retain, on behalf of home care recipients, any subsidy that may be in excess of the care and services provided, to be drawn down as care and services are provided in future; and

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to ensure that the supply of home care remains GST-free. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Coronavirus and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: six Acts to provide for two rounds of additional economic support payments of $250 to certain income support recipients and holders of eligible concession cards; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: recognise the six month period between 25 March and 24 September 2020 as contributing to existing workforce independence criteria for youth allowance; and create a temporary pathway for young Australians, who are seeking to qualify as independent for the purposes of assessing youth allowance (student), to encourage them to undertake seasonal agricultural work; the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to temporarily extend the paid parental leave work test period from 13 months prior to the birth or adoption of a child to 20 months for parents who have had their employment impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to increase the maximum amount that eligible families are able to access after a stillbirth or a child's death shortly after birth up to the child's first birthday, irrespective of whether this is their first or subsequent claim; and the

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to enable the minister to determine average weekly earnings trend figures ordinarily published by the Australian Statistician, for child support assessment purposes, where the publication of this trend figure has been suspended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Investment Reform (Protecting Australia's National Security) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015

  to establish a new fee framework for applications, notices and notifiable national security actions under the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Investment Reform (Protecting Australia’s National Security) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the:

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to: introduce a new national security test which requires mandatory notification of investments in a sensitive national security business or land and allows investments not otherwise notified to be 'called in' for review on national security grounds; provide the Treasurer, as a last resort and in extraordinary circumstances, with the ability to issue a divestment order where there is no other remedy for a national security risk; expand the enforcement, monitoring and investigative powers of the Treasurer and the Commissioner of Taxation; amend the circumstances in which an investor satisfies the change in control test; deems a foreign person to have acquired an interest in securities in an entity where the persons' proportional holdings have increased without the person taking any action; amend the definition of Australian business to include state and territory business functions; expand the tracing rules to unincorporated limited partnerships; enable information sharing with foreign governments; create a Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets which incorporates the existing Register of Foreign Ownership of Water Entitlements and Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land, and create additional obligations to notify the Registrar of a broader range of interests; provide that fees are payable for new types of actions; and make consequential and technical amendments;

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to disclose protected information to the Foreign Investment Review Board for certain purposes; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018

  to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Register of Foreign Ownership of Water or Agricultural Land Act 2015

  . 

  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 (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

• Immigration (Education) Amendment (Expanding Access to English Tuition) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Immigration (Education) Act 1971

  to: remove the 510 hour limit on an eligible person's entitlement to English tuition; amend the upper limit for eligibility to access English tuition from functional English to vocational English; remove the time limits on the registration, commencement and completion of English tuition for certain visa holders; and provide English tuition to certain visa holders or visa applicants outside Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Refunds of Charges and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: enable refunds of registration charges in special circumstances; amend the definition of 'course'; and enable the minister responsible for international education to include and exempt certain courses from the requirements of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum