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• Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill establishes a framework to: regulate the export of waste materials, in line with the agreement to ban the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres by the Council of Australian Governments in 2020; manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products, in particular those impacts associated with the disposal of products; and provide for voluntary, co-regulatory and mandatory product stewardship schemes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are duties of customs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are duties of excise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are neither duties of customs nor duties of excise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Coronavirus Economic Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to enable the extension of the jobkeeper scheme to 28 March 2021 by extending the current time limit on payment rules authorised by the Act;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the circumstances in which protected information can be disclosed;

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: support the extended operation of the jobkeeper scheme; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure provisions regarding agreements in relation to the taking of annual leave are repealed on 28 September 2020, as originally intended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2020 to expand the Tuition Protection Service to include domestic up-front fee paying higher education students, the bill amends the:

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: implement the extension of tuition protection arrangements to apply to domestic students that pay for their tuition fees up-front at a private registered higher education provider; and impose certain obligations on defaulting and replacement providers;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide for a single Higher Education Tuition Protection Director, Higher Education Tuition Protection Fund and Higher Education Tuition Protection Fund Advisory Board to administer and govern tuition protection for domestic up-front fee paying students and HELP students; authorise the collection, use and disclosure of certain information; and impose certain obligations on defaulting providers; and

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  ,

  Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Act 2020

  ,

  Student Identifiers Act 2014

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Risk Screening Protections) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide that: family risk screening information is confidential and cannot be disclosed except in limited circumstances; family safety risk information is inadmissible in court, except in limited circumstances; and court workers (such as registrars and family counsellors) have immunity when involved in family risk screening procedures. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Legislation Amendment (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection) Bill 2020 to expand the Tuition Protection Service to include domestic up-front fee paying higher education students, the bill imposes the up-front payments 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

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: redesign the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) funding clusters and the Commonwealth contribution amounts (CCAs); provide that higher education providers continue to receive the same amount of CGS funding for 'grandfathered students' enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place (CSP) where the current maximum student contributions amounts (SCAs) will apply for units those students enrol in after 1 January 2021; change the way grants are paid to higher education providers for CSPs; remove the broad exclusion of 'work experience in industry' units of study from CGS funding; change the maximum SCAs for a place in a unit of study to reflect the changes to funding clusters and CCAs; ensure that 'grandfathered students' do not have to pay the higher maximum SCA for a unit of study they enrol in after 1 January 2021 where the SCA for that unit would otherwise increase; provide legislative authority for the National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund and allow for the transition arrangements required to implement the Indigenous, Regional and Low Socio-Economic Status Attainment Fund; introduce student protection and provider integrity requirements; reduce, for units of study with a census date on or after 1 January 2021, the loan fee for students obtaining a FEE-HELP loan for an undergraduate court of study at a non-Table B Provider from 25 per cent to 20 per cent; and make minor technical amendments;

  Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Act 2009

  to remove saving arrangements for education and nursing students;

  Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2017

  to extend quality and accountability requirements to all higher education providers (including universities); and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to reduce from six to three the number of months a student living away from home must be receiving eligible student support payments before being eligible to receive Fare Allowance for a return journey home. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sport Integrity Australia Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Review) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Youth and Sport 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Sports Integrity Australia Act 2020

  to implement revisions to the World Anti-Doping Code by: introducing a new category of person (non-participant) who may be subject to the National Anti-Doping Scheme; broadening the discretion of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sport Integrity Australia to not publish details of violations committed by athletes who compete for recreational purposes, or if the CEO believes an athlete does not have the mental capacity to understand the anti-doping rules; broadening the situations where the CEO may respond to public comment on unfinalised matters; and amending the definition of athlete to include persons who competed in sport within the last six months; and

  National Sports Tribunal Act 2019

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum