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• Customs Tariff Amendment (2022 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (2022 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2021 to implement changes resulting from the sixth review of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: insert new subheading classifications for emerging technologies and product categories, such as 3D printers and edible insects, respectively; remove subheading classifications for products that are no longer traded in significant volume such as answering machines; insert new subheading classifications to improve monitoring of trade for goods of concern such as synthetic diamonds, chemicals that are controlled under the Montreal Protocol and the Chemical Weapons Convention, and environmental goods such as electronic waste; create specific classifications for flat panel displays, semiconductor-based transducers and electronic waste; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management 

  Summary

  The bill: appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purposes of making COVID-19 disaster payments in the 2021-22 financial year; and requires the Coordinator-General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRAA) to include information in the NRRA’s annual report that relates to COVID-19 disaster payments made in the 2021-22 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: extend the free rate of customs duty for certain medical and hygiene products from 31 December 2020 to 30 June 2021; and provide for a free rate of customs duty for goods for use in the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program and for prescribed motor vehicles and motor vehicle components for research and development activities by automotive service providers previously registered under the Automotive Transformation Scheme and where the time for working out duty is between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2025. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to establish a scheme that mandates that service and repair information provided to car dealership networks and manufacturer preferred repairs be made available for independent repairs and registered training organisations to purchase at a fair market price; and

  Copyright Act 1968

  to provide that the statutory licensing scheme for educational institutions does not apply to such information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment (Rural and Regional Australia Statements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAINES, Helen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998

  to require the Treasurer to release and table regular rural and regional Australia statements to provide information to allow assessment of the impact of government policy decisions on rural and regional Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: establish the Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority to exercise the routine administrative regulatory functions currently undertaken by the Commonwealth in relation to the Act and other Commonwealth legislation relating to the environment; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Environment and Energy; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Water Act 2007

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide for a free rate of customs duty for certain medical and hygiene products between 1 February 2020 and 31 December 2020; remove the $12 000 special customs duty on used and second-hand motor vehicles that are Peruvian originating goods or that are Trans-Pacific Partnership originating goods; separately identify specifically formulated caffeinated beverages, formulated supplementary sports foods and formulated supplementary foods; specifically identify vitamins and food supplements; provide that wheelie bins do not fall within the classification of vehicles; provide that plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes, pipes and the like requiring further modification prior to being used cannot be classified as parts; and repeal redundant provisions specifying phasing rates of customs duty under certain free trade agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to charge a fee for an application by an entity to be exempted from the deferred sales model for add-on insurance products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: establish a debt restructuring process for eligible small companies and provide temporary relief for eligible companies seeking to enter the process; and expand the situations where documents relating to the external administration of a company may be given electronically and allow documents relating to the external administration of a company to be signed electronically; and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to establish a simplified liquidation process for the purpose of winding up the affairs and distributing the property of an eligible company in a creditors' voluntary winding up, as well as the requirements for entering and exiting the process. Also makes consequential amendments to seven Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020, the bill: repeals the

  Climate Change Authority Act 2011

  ; and amends the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011

  ,

  Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011

  ,

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  to require Commonwealth entities to consider the potential risks of climate change when performing functions or duties, or exercising powers, and include this information in annual reports. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum