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• Excise Tariff Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment Bill 2020 in response to the Federal Court's decision in

  Caltex Australia Petroleum Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation

  [2019] FCA 1849, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to narrow the scope of petroleum-based oils and synthetic equivalents for which excise duties are imposed for the purposes of the Product Stewardship for Oil Scheme to exclude diesel and other fuels. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

  to waive the requirement for permission holders to remit the environmental management charge to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for the period 1 January to 31 March 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Establishes the office of the National Skills Commissioner to provide advice and collect, analyse, share and publish data on Australia’s workforce skills needs, efficient prices for vocational education and training (VET) courses, the public and private return on government investment in VET and other matters relating to the VET system. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment Bill 2020 in response to the Federal Court's decision in

  Caltex Australia Petroleum Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation

  [2019] FCA 1849, the bill amends the

  Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000

  to amend the definition of 'oils' to apply only to lubricant oils, fluid oils and other oils and greases manufactured from base oils. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Jabiru) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Australians 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to: remove the requirement that the term of the Jabiru township lease be 99 years to allow for a shorter term between 40 and 99 years; remove the requirement that the initial grant of the township lease can only be to the Commonwealth; clarify that the new township lease will not automatically extend the term of existing Jabiru subleases beyond the term of the current town head lease; and remove redundant Jabiru-specific leasing provisions; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to make a minor consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Emergency Leave) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to: introduce an emergency leave type that will enable approved providers to remain eligible for residential care subsidy in declared emergency situations; and ensure that approved providers cannot charge aged care residents a fee during a declared emergency to reserve their place in an aged care service. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Amendment (APRA Industry Funding) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial institution supervisory levy framework, the bill amends the

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  to enable the Commonwealth to recover the costs of a wider range of activities that are funded by the Commonwealth and recoverable through the framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements the government's response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security into ASIO's questioning and detention powers by amending the

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  in relation to compulsory questioning powers and tracking devices. Also amends four Acts to make consequential amendments; and makes amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial institution supervisory levy framework, the bill amends the

  Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998

  to: increase the statutory upper limit on the authorised deposit-taking institutions supervisory levy to $10 million for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2020; and amend the calculation of the indexation factor used to establish the statutory upper limits applying in later years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Authorised Non-operating Holding Companies Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial institution supervisory levy framework, the bill amends the

  Authorised Non-operating Holding Companies Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998

  to: increase the statutory upper limit on the authorised non-operating holding companies supervisory levy to $10 million for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2020; and amend the calculation of the indexation factor used to establish the statutory upper limits applying in later years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum