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• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  to clarify the circumstances under which medicare and residential care benefits paid to compensation claimants can be recovered; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to expand the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to include previous foreign immunisation of children where these are notified to the Health Insurance Commission by recognised immunisation providers or prescribed bodies; and update certain definitions. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995

  and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1999

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  Date

  10 Mar 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Summary

  Previously (No. 4) 1998 - Act No. 21 of 1999 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2000

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  Date

  26 Nov 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2001

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  Date

  05 Apr 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 1999

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  Date

  11 Mar 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2005

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  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: extend, until 30 June 2006, the existing arrangements for approving pharmacists to supply medicines subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; clarify that dependants of contributors to a health benefits fund with appropriate cover, as well as the contributors, are covered by the fund;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: clarify the scope of the power to make Medicare Tables; and enable the Minister to make legislative instruments determining that Medicare benefits are not payable for professional services in specified circumstances; and

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  to replace references to the Health Insurance Commission with references to the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  13 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to correct a broad offence provision relating to ‘complying health insurance policy’; and the

  National Health Act 1953

  in relation to pharmacists substituting items under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Also makes consequential amendments as a result of the new regulatory framework imposed by the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

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  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: make amendments consequential on the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia (Abolition) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Health Workforce Australia Act 2009

  to abolish Health Workforce Australia; and provides for transitional arrangements, including the transfer of assets, liabilities, interests in land, records and instruments to the Commonwealth, and the transfer of functions and programs to the Department of Health. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Establishes Health Workforce Australia as an independent statutory body to implement Council of Australian Governments (COAG) health workforce initiatives agreed to in November 2008 including funding, planning and coordinating clinical training, supporting clinical training supervision and health workforce research and planning, funding simulation training, and providing advice to Health Ministers. Also contains a regulation making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum