Bill
Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-04-05. Veterans' Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Veterans' Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-14
- second reading — 2019-02-14
- other — 2019-02-20
- second reading — 2019-02-20
- second reading — 2019-02-20
- other — 2019-02-21
- third reading — 2019-02-21
- introduced — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-03
- third reading — 2019-04-03
- passed — 2019-04-03
- royal assent — 2019-04-05
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 Bills Digest; not the record, as at 2019-02-14.
This bill would give medical treatment, travel payments and a medicine supplement to Australian surgical-medical team members who served in Vietnam.
The Repatriation Commission would arrange or reimburse treatments and travel, following rules similar to those in the BNT BCOF Act and the VE Act.
The bill would start on 1 July 2019, and eligible persons would get a fortnightly pharmaceutical supplement of $6.20.
- The bill would provide medical treatment and travel expenses to eligible Australian surgical-medical team members.
- The bill would pay a pharmaceutical supplement of $6.20 per fortnight.
- The bill would allow the Repatriation Commission to modify treatment principles with ministerial approval.
Australian surgical-medical team members who worked in Vietnam under the SEATO aid program between October 1964 and December 1972 and are Australian residents.
Sources
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