Bill
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Mental Health and Other Measures) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-06-30. Veterans’ Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Veterans’ Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-03-27
- second reading — 2014-03-27
- second reading — 2014-05-28
- second reading — 2014-05-29
- second reading — 2014-05-29
- third reading — 2014-05-29
- introduced — 2014-06-16
- second reading — 2014-06-16
- second reading — 2014-06-19
- second reading — 2014-06-19
- third reading — 2014-06-19
- passed — 2014-06-19
- royal assent — 2014-06-30
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-03-27.
The bill would change the Veterans' Entitlements Act from 1 July 2014 to broaden who can get free mental health care and which conditions qualify.
It would extend non-liability health care to cover alcohol and substance use disorders, and to include former Australian Defence Force members who served for at least three years and were discharged because they could not perform their duties.
The expansion applies to those with three or more years of continuous full-time peacetime service starting on or after 7 April 1994, including those with service both before and after that date.
- Adds alcohol use disorder and substance use disorder to the list of conditions covered by non-liability health care.
- Extends eligibility for non-liability mental health care to certain former Australian Defence Force members.
- Sets the qualifying service period at three years of continuous full-time peacetime service starting on or after 7 April 1994.
Veterans and former Australian Defence Force members with qualifying service.
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