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• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: increase family tax benefit (FTB) Part A fortnightly rates by $10.08 for each FTB child in the family up to 19 years of age; restructure family tax benefit Part B by: increasing the standard rate by $1000.10 per year for families with a youngest child aged under one; maintaining certain standard rates for families, single parents who are at least 60 years of age, grandparents and great-grandparents; and introducing a reduced rate of $1000.10 per year for individuals with a youngest child aged 13 to 16 years of age who are not single parents aged 60 or more or grandparents or great-grandparents; and phase out the family tax benefit Part A and Part B supplements;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to increase certain youth allowance and disability support pension fortnightly rates by approximately $10.44 for recipients under 18 years of age; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Access Regime and NBN Companies) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to clarify that the facilities access regime processes in the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  have precedence over those in this Act;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  National Transmission Network Sale Act 1998

  to provide that certain access providers are to give access to in-building cabling that they own or control when the cabling is necessary for the supply of an active declared service;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  in relation to: pilots and trials of new services or technology; access determinations; notices to vary special access undertakings; fixed principles in special access undertakings; authorised conduct for competition law purposes; clarifying ‘declared services’; and consequential amendments; and

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to provide that an NBN corporation may dispose of surplus non-communications goods; and enable NBN Co’s line of business restrictions to be changed through regulation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Amendment (Strategic Assets) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to prevent foreign persons or entities from acquiring a 10 per cent or greater interest in Australian land, water or other assets that are of strategic economic or strategic defensive importance to Australia 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Credit Repayment (Protecting Vulnerable Borrowers) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Provides that financial institutions with credit agreements to which a security over Australian land applies: must provide to defaulting borrowers notification of their claim of default and register the notification with an authorised government instrumentality; are prohibited from enforcing a right to re-possess or sell the land for a period of two years after default; are prohibited from imposing additional charges on the borrower that were not in place before the default arose; and require the borrower to continue to make interest payments on the credit amount. Also prevents confidentiality clauses in settlement agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Amendment (Protecting Children from Paparazzi) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to provide for a new criminal offence for those who harass the children of celebrities or any other person due to that person’s vocation or occupation, through their attempt to photograph or record the child’s image or voice, whether by following or lying in wait for the child. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Omnibus Repeal Day (Spring 2015) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends: four Acts in the Agriculture and Water Resources portfolio to abolish the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) Advisory Board and the Fishing Industry Policy Council, limit the information that the APVMA is required to provide to Food Standards Australia and New Zealand, and remove obsolete provisions; four Acts in the Communications and the Arts portfolio in relation to re-transmission of programs, and consultation and publication requirements; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make an amendment consequential on a repeal; two Acts in the Environment portfolio to make technical amendments and clarify regulatory arrangements; four Acts in the Health portfolio to abolish the Medical Training Review Panel, remove requirements for redundant reviews of Medicare provider number legislation, simplify approved provider obligations in areas of aged care, and make consequential amendments; 20 Acts in the Infrastructure and Regional Development portfolio and the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Australian Capital Territory as a self-governing territory; the

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to make amendments consequential on a repeal; three Acts in the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio to make minor amendments and remove certain provisions; seven Acts in the Social Services portfolio in relation to use or disclosure of personal information and removal of spent social security and family assistance payments; seven Acts in the Treasury portfolio to make amendments consequential on repeals; the

  Insurance Act 1973

  to remove a redundant standing appropriation; and five Acts in the Veterans’ Affairs portfolio to remove spent veterans’ affairs and military rehabilitation and compensation payments. Also repeals 28 Acts administered in eight portfolios. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Legislation Amendment (Repeal Day 2015) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Norfolk Island Reforms) Act 2015

  to align the earnings base for calculating the superannuation guarantee charge (SG) with the earnings base for calculating SG contributions;

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to align the nominal interest on unpaid or late SG contributions with the period over which they are actually outstanding;

  Crimes (Taxation Offences) Act 1980

  ,

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to align the penalties imposed under the superannuation guarantee charge regime with the administrative penalties imposed by the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  ;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  ,

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Act 1999

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to pay for certain superannuation amounts directly to individuals with a terminal medical condition; and remove the requirement for superannuation funds to lodge a separate biannual lost members statement; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to modify the notification and reporting obligations applying to certain corporations that have property in receivership or property in respect of which a controller is acting. Also amends 10 Acts to remove redundant or spent provisions and repeals five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Safety Net) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to introduce a new medicare safety net on 1 January 2016 to replace the Extended Medicare Safety Net, the Original Medicare Safety Net and the Greatest Permissible Gap. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting Discrimination Based On Location) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CHRISTENSEN, George, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to make it unlawful for an employer to take adverse action against an employee or potential employee based upon where they live. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Criminology Research) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Merges the functions of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) into the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) by amending the

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  to enable the ACC to perform the AIC’s functions, including carrying out criminology research, sharing and publishing that research and carrying out commissioned research; and repealing the

  Criminology Research Act 1971

  to abolish the AIC as a statutory agency. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum