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• Paid Parental Leave Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Small Business 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to remove the requirement for employers to provide paid parental leave to eligible employees, unless an employer chooses to manage the payment to employees and the employees agree for the employer to pay them. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment (Small Business Protection) Bill 2002 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Small Business and Tourism 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to bring representative actions in relation to contraventions of provisions relating to secondary boycotts and contracts, arrangements or understandings affecting the supply or acquisition of goods or services. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment (Small Business Protection) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Small Business and Tourism 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to bring representative actions in relation to contraventions of provisions relating to secondary boycotts and contracts, arrangements or understandings affecting the supply or acquisition of goods or services. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Payment Processing) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Security portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Amendment Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Security portfolio 

  Bill

• Social Security Amendment (Entry Payments) Bill 1997 [1998]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 1997 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Security portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Workforce Incentive) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to enable age pensioners and certain veterans' entitlement recipients to have their payment suspended for up to two years, instead of cancelled, if their income, which includes some income from the recipient's own employment, precludes payment; and provide for the same suspension period for partners of the age pension, disability support pension and certain veterans' entitlements recipients, where the partner is receiving a social security pension or certain veterans' entitlements;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make minor amendments to the existing suspension provisions for disability support pensioners; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that working age pensioners, disability support pensioners and certain veterans' entitlement recipients, and their pensioner partners, can retain their pensioner concession card for up to two years after their payment ceases. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Consistent Waiting Periods for New Migrants) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the newly arrived resident's waiting period (NARWP) for carer payment and carer allowance to 208 weeks; remove the qualifying residence period for parenting payment; apply the 208-week NARWP for the low income health care card and Commonwealth seniors health card to temporary visa holders; make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Act 2021

  ; and make minor technical amendments;

  Social Security (International Agreements) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: increase the NARWP for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A to 208 weeks; and introduce a 208-week NARWP for FTB Part B; and

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to increase the NARWP for parental leave pay and dad and partner pay to 208 weeks. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: extend the end date for existing cashless debit card (CDC) trial areas from 30 June 2020 to 30 June 2021 and establish an end date for the CDC trial in the Cape York area of 31 December 2021; remove the cap on the number of CDC trial participants; remove the exclusion to allow people in the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay trial area to be able to voluntarily participate in the CDC trial; establish the Northern Territory and Cape York areas as CDC trial areas and transition income management participants in these sites onto the CDC trial in 2020; enable the secretary to advise a community body when a person has exited the CDC trial and remove the requirement that an evaluation be conducted by an independent expert within 6 months of the completion of a review of the CDC trial. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: restrict access to the relocation scholarship to students relocating within Australia and students studying in Australia; align pensioner education supplement fortnightly rates with the amount of study undertaken by eligible students; and provide that payments of the pensioner education supplement cease during semester breaks and holiday periods; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to align education entry payment rates with the amount of study undertaken by eligible students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum