Bill
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-12-04. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-10-23
- second reading — 2014-10-27
- second reading — 2014-10-27
- third reading — 2014-10-27
- introduced — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-11-24
- second reading — 2014-11-24
- third reading — 2014-11-24
- passed — 2014-11-24
- royal assent — 2014-12-04
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 2014-09-25.
This bill is part of a package that also includes the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges (Amendment) Bill 2014.
The package would change aged care funding by redirecting money from a workforce supplement into general subsidies for providers, and would allow a new online portal to use Medicare identifiers to verify client identities.
The package would also fix a problem in recovering past care costs for home care when a recipient gets compensation, making the rules the same as for residential care.
- The bill would remove the workforce supplement from the list of supplements that can be given under the subsidy principles of the Aged Care Act 1997.
- The bill would change the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 to let data be collected, used and disclosed for the My Aged Care portal.
- The bill would make minor clarifications and technical fixes to aged care and health laws.
Providers of residential, home and flexible aged care, aged care clients, and the Commonwealth.
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