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• Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009

  to: enable the National Joint Replacement Register (NJRR) levy to be imposed on the recording on the NJRR of the provision of a joint replacement prosthesis, rather than for being a sponsor of a joint replacement prosthesis; set a cap of $5000 on the amount of NJRR levy payable for a financial year by a sponsor; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2014

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  Date

  04 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: transfer the functions of the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman to the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman from 1 July 2015; provide for references to a base premium (previously intended to be used to calculate the private health insurance rebate) included in the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to be taken never to have been so included; and validate any overpayment that may have been made to private health insurers by the Commonwealth because of the inclusion of references to base premiums. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014

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  Date

  24 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to pause the income thresholds which determine the tiers for the Medicare levy surcharge and the government rebate on private health insurance for three years from the 2015-16 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment Bill 2014

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  Date

  16 Jul 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Aligns Australia’s anti-doping legislation with the revised World Anti-Doping Code and International Standards that come into force on 1 January 2015 by amending the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  in relation to: an additional prohibited association anti-doping rule violation (ADRV); extending the period to 10 years in which action can be commenced on a possible ADRV; expanding the membership of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee; information management; a requirement for the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) to maintain a public record of ADRVs and sanctions; public disclosure of information by ASADA; removal of the requirement for the ADRV Panel to maintain a Register of Findings; and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Workforce Australia (Abolition) Bill 2014

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  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

• Dental Benefits Legislation Amendment Bill 2014

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  Date

  26 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to apply the Professional Services Review Scheme to dental services provided under the Child Dental Benefits Schedule;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to require the Chief Executive Medicare (CEM) to waive certain debts incurred by dentists in relation to the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (CDDS); and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  to: enable the CEM or their delegate to obtain certain documents from dentists to substantiate the payments of benefits under the CDBS; delegate ministerial functions and powers; amend the definition of ‘dental practitioner’; enable the disclosure of certain protected information; and make a technical amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2014

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  Date

  26 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: increase the general threshold of the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) to $2000 from 1 January 2015; and enable the Chief Executive Medicare to determine the manner in which families are contacted to confirm their family composition for EMSN purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

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  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: provide, for the purposes of determining the private health insurance rebate, a single rebate adjustment factor which will apply to premiums on 1 April each year from 2014; and make a technical amendment. Also repeals the

  Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2013 Measures No. 1) Bill 2013

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  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable the minister to specify products that are taken not to be therapeutic goods; enable the secretary to remove products that are not therapeutic goods from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods; clarify the secretary’s powers to approve product information for medicines accepted for registration in the register; and make amendments in relation to: compliance with advertising requirements; obtaining information and documents; use of restricted and prohibited representations in advertisements; conditions of registration or listing in the register; presentation of registered or listed goods; consent to the import, supply or export of goods; review of decisions; a package and its contents to constitute a kit; criminal offences and civil penalties for false or misleading statements in relation to variation requests; minimum notice period for cancellation of registration or listing in the register; secretary’s discretion to publish certain information on the department’s website; clarification of the merits review process; prescribing of alternative periods of time in relation to the secretary’s selection of an application for auditing; failure to comply with requirements to provide information; and revocation of requested cancellation of devices, licences or certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Simplified Price Disclosure) Bill 2013

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  Date

  21 Nov 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Implements the simplified price disclosure measure by amending the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: provide that 1 April or 1 October are price disclosure reduction days; and ensure that the existing Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) price for a medicine is not reduced by a price disclosure reduction unless the weighted average market price is at least 10 per cent less than the PBS price on the day the 10 per cent test is applied. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum