Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching and Other Matters) Bill 2019

Type: Government
Portfolio: Health
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 46

Summary

Amends: the National Health Act 1953 and Health Insurance Act 1973 to: enable information held by the Chief Executive Medicare (CEM) to be subject to data-matching for the purposes of ensuring the integrity of medicare programs including the Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; and enable the CEM to authorise a Commonwealth entity to carry out data matching for the same purposes on the CEM’s behalf; four Acts to make consequential amendments; and the Health Insurance Act 1973 and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 to enable services involving a professional attendance provided under certain laws administered by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to be considered for a prescribed pattern of services, but not unacceptable conduct, for the purposes of the Professional Services Review scheme.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	23 Oct 2019
Second reading moved	23 Oct 2019
Second reading debate	27 Nov 2019
Second reading agreed to	27 Nov 2019
Third reading agreed to	27 Nov 2019

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	02 Dec 2019
Second reading moved	02 Dec 2019
Second reading debate	05 Dec 2019
Second reading agreed to	05 Dec 2019
Third reading agreed to	05 Dec 2019


Finally passed both Houses	05 Dec 2019
Assent Act no: 121 Year: 2019	12 Dec 2019

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Notes

Considered by scrutiny committee (13/11/2019): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 9 of 2019
Considered by scrutiny committee (05/02/2020): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 1 of 2020
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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