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• 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 Amendment (Accreditation Agency) Bill 1998

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  Date

  12 Nov 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Aged care portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008

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  Date

  16 Oct 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Act 2006

  to reflect business model changes to aged care services so that: approved provider status is linked to the allocation of funded aged care places; providers maintain appropriate expertise; 'key personnel' includes anyone with authority for controlling activities of a provider; assessments by Aged Care Assessment Teams are minimised; and accommodation bonds and similar payments are protected under the Accommodation Bond Guarantee Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008

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  Date

  13 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  ,

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Act 2006

  and

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Act 2006

  to: simplify the fees and charges paid by residents of aged care facilities and the subsidies paid by the Commonwealth Government for residents who are unable to meet their own care and accommodation costs; broaden eligibility for community care grants for providers of Community Aged Care Packages and to providers of certain flexible care types; extend the application of aged care legislation to include Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (2005 Measures No. 1) Bill 2006

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  Date

  08 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the protection of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds, the bill amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Consequential Provisions) Act 1997

  to provide for new prudential regulatory arrangements in relation to the management of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds and entry contributions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Single Quality Framework) Reform Bill 2018

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  Date

  24 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013

  to provide for a single set of aged care quality standards to apply to all Commonwealth funded aged care providers;

  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013

  to vary the functions of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency to reference the Aged Care Quality Standards; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt protected information acquired by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency from disclosure under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Bill 2013

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  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills in relation to the Living Longer Living Better aged care package, the bill amends: the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to: remove the distinction between low level and high level residential care; provide for a means test combining income and assets tests and annual and lifetime caps on means tested care fees; provide for a dementia supplement, veterans’ mental health supplement and workforce supplement to be payable to providers who care for eligible care recipients; enable care recipients to choose the method by which they pay for accommodation, including by a fully refundable lump sum, a rental style periodic payment, or a combination of both; replace community care and some forms of care delivered in a person’s home with home care; extend the community visitors scheme to people in home care; appoint and provide for the functions of an Aged Care Pricing Commissioner; require the commissioner to prepare an annual report; and provide that an independent review of this package is undertaken and provided to the minister by 1 July 2017; and eight Acts to make consequential and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Bill 2006

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  Date

  08 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to protection of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds, the bill enables the imposition of levies on approved providers in order to recover costs incurred by the Commonwealth as a result of repaying accommodation bond balances to residents in the event that an approved provider of a residential aged care service or a flexible care service becomes insolvent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills in relation to the Living Longer Living Better aged care package, the bill amends the

  Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Act 2006

  to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and enable a levy to be imposed on approved providers for the costs incurred by the Commonwealth in refunding refundable accommodation deposit balances and refundable accommodation contribution balances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Ageing 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the protection of aged care residents’ accommodation bonds, the bill establishes a scheme to guarantee the repayment of aged care residents’ bond balances in the event that an approved provider of a residential aged care service or a flexible care service becomes insolvent and is unable to repay residents’ bond balances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum