Bill
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-04-04. Veterans’ Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Veterans’ Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2017-03-02
- second reading — 2017-03-02
- committee — 2017-03-02
- third reading — 2017-03-02
- introduced — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-27
- committee — 2017-03-27
- third reading — 2017-03-27
- other — 2017-03-28
- other — 2017-03-29
- passed — 2017-03-29
- royal assent — 2017-04-04
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 2016-11-24.
The bill would update the Department of Veterans’ Affairs' legal framework to support its digital transformation and service improvements.
It would allow the department’s Secretary to authorise computer programs to make decisions and determinations under three veterans’ Acts, and to disclose information in the public interest with safeguards.
The public interest disclosure power would be reviewed two years after it starts, and the bill also adds information-sharing provisions to the DRCA for consistency with the MRCA.
- Authorises computer programs to make decisions and determinations under the VEA, MRCA and DRCA.
- Allows the Secretary to disclose case information in the public interest, with safeguards including a ministerial rule-making requirement and a mandatory review after two years.
- Inserts three information-sharing provisions in the DRCA involving the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, the Secretary of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Force.
- Makes two minor technical fixes to the VEA that were omitted from the Statute Update Act 2016.
- Corrects the short title of the DRCA.
Veterans, their families, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Defence, and the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission.
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