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• Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: introduce new criminal offences and civil penalty provisions for company officers that fail to prevent the company from making creditor-defeating dispositions and other persons that facilitate a company making a creditor-defeating disposition; allow liquidators to apply for a court order in relation to a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to make orders to recover, for the benefit of a company’s creditors, company property disposed of or benefits received under a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; and prevent directors from improperly backdating resignations or ceasing to be a director when this would leave a company with no directors; the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to collect estimates of anticipated goods and services tax (GST) liabilities and make company directors personally liable for their company's GST liabilities in certain circumstances; the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to authorise the commissioner to retain tax refunds where a taxpayer has failed to lodge a return or provide other information that may affect the amount of a refund; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Multinationals Pay Their Fair Share of Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: require an entity to use the value of the assets, liabilities and equity capital that are used in its financial statements; remove the ability for an entity to revalue its assets specifically for thin capitalisation purposes; and ensure that non-ADI foreign controlled Australian tax consolidated groups and multiple entry consolidated groups that have foreign investments or operations are treated as both outward investing and inward investing entities;

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to require offshore suppliers of rights or options to use commercial accommodation in Australia to include these supplies in working out their GST turnover; and

  A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999

  to remove liability for luxury car tax from cars that are re-imported following service, repair or refurbishment overseas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members’ Interests First) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to prevent trustees from providing insurance on an opt out basis to members who are under 25 years old and begin to hold a new product on or after 1 October 2019, and to members who hold products with balances below $6000; and

  Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Indigenous Authority Member) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to provide for a standing Indigenous member position on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Future Drought Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Future Drought Fund Bill 2019, the bill makes consequential amendments to seven Acts to: support the operation of the Future Drought Fund; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Future Drought Fund Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Future Drought Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019, the bill uses uncommitted funds from the Building Australia Fund to establish the Future Drought Fund (comprised of the Future Drought Fund Special Account and the investments of the Future Drought Fund) as a dedicated investment vehicle to provide a secure revenue stream to be used for drought resilience, preparedness and response. Also establishes the Future Drought Fund Consultative Committee. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to enable the Secretary of the Department of Health (or their delegates) to allow approved providers of residential aged care to move provisionally allocated residential aged care places from one region to another, within a state or territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements a number of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by amending the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: introduce two new offences, and related defences, court rules and protections, for failure to protect a child at risk of a child sexual abuse offence and failure to report child sexual abuse; and introduce a new offence, and related defences and changes to the definition of 'child pornography material', of possessing a doll or other object that resembles a child or part of a child intended to be used by a person to simulate sexual intercourse;

  Customs Act 1901

  to prohibit the import and export of child-like sex dolls and similar objects;

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to allow applications for the emergency authorisation for use of a surveillance device to be made in relation to the new offence of possession of child-like sex dolls or other objects;

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to provide that the new offence of possession of child-like sex dolls or other objects is a serious offence for the purposes of the Act;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: introduce a new offence, and related presumptions and defences, for the possession or control of 'child abuse material' in the form of data held in a computer or on a data storage device; provide that the existing offence of persistent sexual abuse of a child outside Australia applies to the commission of two or more separate occasions of underlying child sex offences overseas over any period of time; amend the existing definition of 'forced marriage' to explicitly capture all marriages involving children under 16; remove the rebuttable presumption that a person under 16 is presumed to be incapable of understanding the nature and effect of a marriage ceremony; require the Attorney-General's consent to commence proceedings in relation to the offences of causing a person to enter a forced marriage and being a party to a forced marriage; clarify that forced marriage offences involving a child under 16 will automatically attract the aggravated maximum penalty of nine years' imprisonment; and narrow the existing defence to offences involving engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity with a child or young person outside Australia, and procuring or 'grooming' a child for sexual activity outside Australia; and

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  ,

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to remove references to ‘child pornography material’ and reconstitute the current definitions of ‘child abuse material’ and ‘child pornography material’ into a single definition of ‘child abuse material’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Sports Tribunal (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Youth and Sport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Sports Tribunal Bill 2019 to implement certain recommendations of the

  Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review), the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to support the establishment of the National Sports Tribunal. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Sports Tribunal Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Youth and Sport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Sports Tribunal (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019 to implement certain recommendations of the

  Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review), the bill provides for the establishment and operation of the National Sports Tribunal as an independent specialist tribunal for the hearing and resolution of sporting disputes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum