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• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to establish a $150,000 limit on primary earner income for family tax benefit Part B and related tax offsets;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  in relation to the baby bonus to: introduce a means test; provide for instalment payment; change the indexation date to 1 July each year; and extend the eligibility to certain adopted children;

  Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide for the collection of tax file numbers as part of a new compliance regime for the seniors health card;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide for a person to enter into a voluntary income management agreement;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to increase the eligible age for partner service pension to qualifying age; and five Acts in relation to: child support reforms; family assistance; and technical amendments relating to family tax benefits and social security. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further 2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the family assistance and taxation laws in relation to: the pension bonus scheme; the assurance of support scheme for migrants; crisis payments to qualifying humanitarian visa entrants; the threshold for funeral investments exempt from the income and assets test; and extending the payment of multiple birth allowance to children under 16 years of age and to children who are undertaking full-time study until they turn 18. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Support Reform Consolidation and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends family assistance law in relation to: the operation of the Child Support Scheme; overseas maintenance arrangements; the maintenance income test; portability of family tax benefit; the baby bonus; remote area allowance; extension of the assets test exemption period; income streams; dependant and housekeeper rebates; Medicare levy; and makes minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Disability Assistance) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to introduce an annual, tax free payment of $1000 to certain carers of disabled children under the age of 16, and makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other 2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the family assistance law to: increase the rate of child care benefits payable from 1 July 2007 by 10 per cent over and above the CPI indexation increase; convert the child care tax offset for out-of-pocket child care expenses to a child care tax rebate; and the social security law to provide full-time students aged 16 to 25 years who have a disability or a severe medical condition with a health care card. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to increase the maximum amount of land that is exempt from the age pension assets test to encompass all land on the same title as the principal home;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to establish a further ground for eligibility for crisis payment; and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  ,

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to allow for the exchange of information between agencies for compliance purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to implement the Northern Territory National Emergency Response, the bill amends the

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  ,

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  ,

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  ,

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  and proposed

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  in relation to: prohibition of pornographic material; law enforcement; retention of government ownership of facilities constructed on Aboriginal land; access to Aboriginal land; and certain township lease grants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Family Assistance, Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget and Other Measures) Act 2006

  to: increase the lower income threshold for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: extend the FTB Part A large family supplement to families with 3 or more children; introduce a maintenance income credit to enable parents to access their unused maintenance income free area from previous years to offset late child support payments; and amend income test rules for FTB Part B where a secondary earner returns to work for the first time after the birth of a child;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: extend eligibility for the utilities allowance to recipients of mature age, widow or partner allowance; and extend the carer payment to carers of children under 16 years with severe intellectual, psychiatric or behavioural disabilities;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to enable the establishment of a special disability trust for the care of a severely disabled person to not affect the social security or veterans’ entitlements payments of the recipient or family member donors;

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to introduce a non-taxable means test-exempt Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment;

  Family Law Act 1975

  to implement changes to the governance arrangements of the Australian Institute of Family Studies in response to recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review);

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

  to: amend the definition of “income tax refund” to include refundable tax offsets; and make technical amendments in relation to income estimates; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make technical amendments consequential on family law changes relating to shared parental responsibility. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  ,

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  and

  Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983

  to reduce the amount of private health insurance rebate eligible taxpayers with complying private health insurance are entitled to when their income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge—Fringe Benefits) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

  A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge--Fringe Benefits) Act 1999

  to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income (including reportable fringe benefits) for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum