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• Parliamentary Service Bill 1997 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration portfolio 

  Bill

• Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Bill 2013

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  Date

  16 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Establishes a system of governance and accountability across Commonwealth entities by: establishing a uniform set of duties for accountable authorities; establishing a uniform set of duties for all officials who use or manage public resources; establishing a comprehensive and uniform reporting framework including requiring the development of corporate plans; placing a duty on entities to establish appropriate systems of risk oversight and management (earned autonomy); enabling Commonwealth entities to partner with the states, territories and not-for-profit sector; and clarifying the Finance Minister’s role in relation to the financial framework. Also requires the minister in consultation with the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit to cause an independent review of the operation of the Act after three years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passports Legislation Amendment (Integrity) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  and

  Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005

  to: ensure that the minister retains the power to issue a person with a travel-related document to facilitate a lawful requirement for a person to travel; provide more certainty as to who is required to consent to a child passport; provide that the minister may refuse to process a passport application if there are reasonable grounds to suspect fraud or dishonesty in the application; and amend and add offences; and 12 Acts to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Australian Passports (Transitionals and Consequentials) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passports Legislation Amendment (Overseas Travel by Child Sex Offenders) Bill 2017

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  Date

  14 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  and

  Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005

  to require the Minister for Foreign Affairs to deny a passport or demand the surrender of a foreign travel document when an Australian citizen is on a state or territory child sex offender register with reporting obligations; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to create an offence for a registered child sex offender with reporting obligations to travel, or attempt to travel, overseas without permission from a relevant authority. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Amendment (Income Thresholds) Bill 2021

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  Date

  12 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: continue the pause on the indexation of private health insurance income thresholds used in determining the tier for the private health insurance rebate and the Medicare levy surcharge for a further two years; and adjust the formula for recommencement of indexation at the current income thresholds from 1 July 2023. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to increase maximum excess levels for private hospital cover, the bill amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: increase maximum excess levels for products providing an exemption from the Medicare levy surcharge; enable age-based premium discounts for hospital cover; enable private health insurers to cover travel and accommodation costs for regional Australians as part of a hospital treatment; require insurers to maintain up to date information about complying health insurance products in the form of a ‘private health information statement’; require the minister to assess and determine whether or not to include a private hospital in a class of hospitals eligible for second-tier default benefits; and enable insurers to terminate products and transfer affected policy-holders to new products;

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to enable age-based premium discounts to be made available to younger people; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to provide the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman with powers to conduct inspections and audits at the premises of insurers or brokers. Also includes transitional provisions relating to the treatment of benefit limitation period inclusive policies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• 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

  Track (What's this?)

  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

  Track (What's this?)

  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

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  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