Bill
Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-15. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-27
- second reading — 2020-02-27
- second reading — 2020-03-05
- second reading — 2020-10-27
- second reading — 2020-10-28
- second reading — 2020-10-28
- third reading — 2020-10-28
- introduced — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- passed — 2020-12-08
- royal assent — 2020-12-15
Divisions
- Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Ms Bell from speaking — 2020-03-05, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 62, noes 77
- Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Mr Young from speaking — 2020-03-05, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 64, noes 77
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-10-28.17.3) to keep unchanged the usual [second reading motion](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/), which is *that the bill be read a second time*. To read a bill for a second time is to agree with the bill's main idea. ### What does this bill do? According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd093): > *The purpose of the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020 (the Bill) is ... to change the payment of Australian Government subsidies for home care packages from payment in advance to payment in arrears.* — 2020-10-28, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 53, noes 44
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-27.
The bill would change how the government pays home care subsidies to approved providers.
Instead of receiving payment before delivering care, providers would be paid after the care period ends.
The change aligns home care subsidy payments with other government programs and is the first part of reforms announced in the 2019-20 Budget.
- Moves home care subsidy payments from advance to arrears.
- Aligns payment arrangements with other government programs.
- Amends the Aged Care Act 1997 and the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.
Approved providers of home care packages are affected, but consumer eligibility and subsidy amounts are not changed.
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