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• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAMMOND, Tim, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: impose a cap on the total payments that can be made under a consumer lease (known as rent-to-buy schemes); require small amount credit contracts (SACCs) (known as payday loans) to have equal repayments and payment intervals; remove the ability for SACC providers to charge monthly fees in respect of the residual term of a loan where a consumer fully repays the loan early; prevent lessors and credit assistance providers from undertaking door-to-door selling of leases at residential homes; introduce anti-avoidance protections; and increase penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Clarification of Jurisdiction) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Responds to the Full Federal Court decision in

  Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v ARJ17

  [2017] FCAFC 125 by amending the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to clarify the allocation of jurisdiction between the Federal Circuit Court and the Federal Court in relation to a migration decision; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: provide that eggs may be marketed as ‘free range’ only if they are laid by hens that are able to, and do in fact, move freely on an open range during daylight hours on most days, and are laid from hens subject to a stocking density of no more than 1500 hens per hectare; require stocking density information to be displayed on egg labels prominently in a ‘hens per hectare’ format; and enable eggs that are not cage eggs but which do not meet the definition of ‘free range’ to be marketed as ‘access to range’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Near-new Dwelling Interests) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures No. 2) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015

  to impose reconciliation fees on developers who sell a near-new dwelling to a foreign person under a near-new dwelling exemption certificate. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to allow regulations to provide for exemptions from the Australian Financial Services Licence and Australian Credit Licence requirements for the purposes of testing financial and credit products and services under certain conditions;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to amend the venture capital and early stage investor provisions to ensure that they operate as intended in relation to capital gains tax transactions, managed investment trusts and the early stage investor tax offset; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to amend the definition of public trading trusts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures No. 2) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Near-new Dwelling Interests) Bill 2018, the bill amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: remove the entitlement to the capital gains tax (CGT) main residence exemption for foreign residents; and clarify that, for the purpose of determining whether an entity’s underlying value is principally derived from taxable Australian real property under the foreign resident CGT regime, the principal asset test is applied on an associate inclusive basis;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to provide for transitional arrangements in relation to the main residence exemption;

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to require a reconciliation payment to be made by developers who sell dwellings to foreign persons under a near-new dwelling exemption certificate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide an additional affordable housing capital gains discount of up to 10 per cent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  to enable the minister to make Australian travel document data available for the purposes of, and by the automated means intrinsic to, the identity-matching services to which the Commonwealth, states and territories agreed in the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services, agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Identity-matching Services Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Pursuant to the objectives of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services (IGA), agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017, the bill provides for the exchange of identity information between the Commonwealth, state and territory governments by enabling the Department of Home Affairs to collect, use and disclose identification information in order to operate the technical systems that will facilitate the identity-matching services envisaged by the IGA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Improving National Employment Standards) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to amend the National Employment Standards to enable an employee who experiences family or domestic violence to take up to 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per year or 2 days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave for each permissible occasion. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Charges Imposition) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017, the bill imposes a charge on applications for registration or renewal of registration under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum