Bill
National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-11-22. Health and Aged Care portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health and Aged Care
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-06-21
- second reading — 2023-06-21
- second reading — 2023-08-03
- second reading — 2023-08-07
- second reading — 2023-09-05
- second reading — 2023-09-06
- second reading — 2023-09-06
- third reading — 2023-09-06
- introduced — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- committee — 2023-09-14
- third reading — 2023-10-19
- other — 2023-11-13
- passed — 2023-11-13
- royal assent — 2023-11-22
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 2023-06-21.
This bill is part of a package that would set up a national register for work-related lung diseases.
The register would collect data on diseases linked to workplace causes and share it to help spot new risks and track prevention efforts.
Doctors would have to report cases of silicosis caused by work, and could voluntarily report other occupational lung diseases.
- Creates a legal framework for the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry.
- Requires notification of occupationally caused silicosis by respiratory and occupational physicians.
- Allows voluntary reporting of other occupational respiratory diseases.
- Makes data on disease causes and exposures available to inform prevention and intervention strategies.
- Protects information given to the registry from freedom of information requests.
Workers, respiratory and occupational physicians, and state and territory governments.
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