Bill
Aged Care Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-09-20. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-24
- second reading — 2019-07-24
- second reading — 2019-09-10
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- third reading — 2019-09-11
- introduced — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-17
- second reading — 2019-09-17
- third reading — 2019-09-17
- passed — 2019-09-17
- royal assent — 2019-09-20
Divisions
- The majority voted against an amendment to the usual [second reading motion](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html) "*that the bills be read a second time*", which is parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill. Since this vote was unsuccessful, the second reading motion will remain unchanged. ### Amendment text > *That all words after 'That' be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: "whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House notes the Government's continued mismanagement of aged care reform".* — 2019-09-11, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 66, noes 78
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-07-24.
The bill would let the Department of Health secretary approve moving some residential aged care places between regions inside a state or territory.
The change fixes a legal problem where the current Act did not allow the department to vary the region assigned to a place that had been allocated but not yet used.
The government says the amendment brings the law into line with how the department had been handling these moves before the issue was discovered.
- Permit the secretary or delegates to allow approved providers to move provisionally allocated places to a different region within the same state or territory.
- Remedy the incorrect interpretation of the Aged Care Act 1997 that had prevented such movements.
- Align the legislation with the existing departmental practice.
Approved providers of residential aged care and the Department of Health.
Sources
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