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• Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill amends the:

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide for the administration of each sector by a Tuition Protection Director with specific functions; provide for each sector to be supported by a separate Tuition Protection Fund Advisory Board; require non-exempt providers to contribute annual levies, commensurate with their size and risk; establish two special accounts (the VET Student Loans Tuition Protection Fund and the HELP Tuition Protection Fund); provide assistance to students who may complete their studies with another provider or may have their loan balance re-credited for units of study commenced but not completed due to the provider’s default; and impose certain obligations on default providers and replacement providers;

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to enable the secretary to refuse to revoke an approval on request if certain compliance action is being taken; and

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Building on the Child Care Package) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: amend the requirement on child care providers for the issuing of Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) certificates by removing the 50 per cent limit on the number of children that a provider can self-certify for ACCS; enable the minister to prescribe circumstances in which a third party may contribute to meeting the cost of an individual’s child care fees without affecting that individual’s child care subsidies (CCS); enable the minister to prescribe specific circumstances in which CCS can be paid where the child is absent at the start or end of an enrolment; and include the In Home Care rate alongside the rates for other care types, and the capacity for the minister to specify eligibility criteria and care requirements that must be met for access to Commonwealth-subsidised In Home Care places; and

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

  to: increase the number of weeks at which enrolments automatically cease due to non-attendance from 8 to 14 weeks; clarify that certain decisions must first be subject to internal review before application is made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; simplify the process for making claims for CCS; ensure that where an approved provider of child care service is suspended or cancelled, access to CCS is automatically suspended or cancelled; and enable child care providers to request voluntary suspension of their approval in appropriate circumstances. Also makes refinements, corrections and consequential amendments to both Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill imposes the HELP tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by providers, and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  to: clarify eligible related claims for the purposes of aggregation; and clarify that the High Cost Claim Scheme (HCCS) and the Exceptional Claims Scheme (ECS) are only intended to apply in respect of medical practitioners;

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  and

  Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010

  to clarify eligibility for the Run off Cover Schemes and permit access for medical practitioners and eligible midwives retiring before the age of 65;

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  and

  Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010

  to: clarify the intent of the medical indemnity law that payments will only be made if the claim relates to the provision of a health service; and make administrative changes to streamline and clarify the operation of the legislation;

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  ,

  Medical Indemnity (Prudential Supervision and Product Standards) Act 2003

  ,

  Medical Indemnity (Run-off Cover Support Payment) Act 2004

  and

  Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010

  to restructure and consolidate medical and midwife indemnity legislative instruments; and

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  and

  Medical Indemnity (Prudential Supervision and Product Standards) Act 2003

  to: require all medical indemnity insurers to provide universal cover to medical practitioners; and create high cost claim and exceptional claims schemes for allied health professionals, and enable private sector employee midwives to access these schemes. Also: repeals the

  Medical Indemnity (Competitive Advantage Payment) Act 2005

  and

  Medical Indemnity (UMP Support Payment) Act 2002

  to remove redundant payments; and makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Air Pollution) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Implements Australia’s obligations in relation to sulphur emissions from ships under Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships by amending the

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to: enable ships to use non-compliant fuel from 1 January 2020 if they are fitted with a scrubber or other equivalent compliance methods to reduce sulphur from their emissions to below the prescribed limit; prohibit the carriage of high sulphur fuel for propulsion purposes on board a ship from 1 March 2020 (carriage ban); exempt naval and foreign government vessels from the application of the Act; and clarify obligations of fuel oil suppliers to verify fuel quality. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Measures No. 2) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to extend the concessional tax treatment for genuine redundancy and early retirement scheme payments made to individuals who are 65 years or older provided the dismissal or retirement occurs before they reach pension age;

  A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999

  to increase the refund amount that eligible primary producers and tourism operators can receive when luxury car tax is borne on the supply or import of an eligible vehicle;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: increase the size of the board of the Australian Energy Regulator from three to five members and make changes to the operation of the board; and create a requirement that consumer data rules include an obligation on accredited data recipients to delete consumer data right data in response to a valid request from a consumer;

  Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Act 1999

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to pay interest on amounts held by the commissioner that are proactively reunified with a person’s active superannuation account; and Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Regulations 1999 to prescribe the rate of interest payable on inactive low balance accounts and amounts proactively reunified by the commissioner. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: prohibit certain conduct in electricity retail, contract and wholesale markets, broadly relating to retail pricing, financial contract market liquidity and conduct in wholesale spot markets; provide powers and remedies which the ACCC may use if it reasonably believes a corporation has engaged, or is engaging, in prohibited conduct in the electricity sector; enable the Treasurer, following the receipt of a prohibited conduct recommendation from the ACCC, to issue a written order to a corporation or another body to make offers to enter into electricity financial contracts with third party entities; enable the Treasurer, following the receipt of a prohibited conduct recommendation from the ACCC, to apply to the Federal Court (the court) for a divestiture order and for the court to make related orders that a corporation or another body corporate dispose of interests in securities or assets that are part of its electricity business; set out the notice and recommendation procedures that must be followed before an order can be made in respect of a corporation or another body corporate; confer new compulsory information gathering powers on the Australian Energy Regulator (AER); allow the AER to share information with other agencies; and facilitate the conferral of functions related to the regulation of retail electricity prices on the AER. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Recovering Unpaid Superannuation) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to provide for a one-off amnesty to encourage employers to self-correct historical superannuation guarantee non compliance; and

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to limit the Commissioner of Taxation’s ability to remit penalties for historical superannuation guarantee non-compliance, where an employer fails to disclose information relevant to their historical superannuation guarantee shortfall. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill imposes the VSL tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by various classes of providers, and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to: replace the current arrangements, whereby a person’s Australian citizenship automatically ceases through certain conduct, with a discretion for the Minister for Home Affairs to determine that a person who is a national or citizen of a country other than Australia ceases to be an Australian citizen if they have: engaged in specified terrorism-related conduct; fought for, or been in the service of, a declared terrorist organisation outside Australia; or engaged in conduct that results in a conviction for a specified terrorism offence; include transitional provisions to deal with cases where the minister is unaware that a person may have lost their citizenship under the current provisions; reduce the sentence term threshold for which a person convicted of a specified terrorism offence may be considered for citizenship cessation from 6 to 3 years; and extend the period in which persons convicted of a specified terrorism offence resulting in at least 3 years imprisonment may be considered for citizenship cessation from 12 December 2015 to 29 May 2003; and

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  and

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to enable the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to review the operation, effectiveness and implication of the citizenship cessation provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum