Bill
National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-11-06. 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
- passed — 2023-10-19
- royal assent — 2023-11-06
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 system to collect and share data on work-related lung diseases.
The package would make changes to existing federal laws to protect private and commercial information given to the registry from freedom of information requests.
The registry would require doctors to report cases of silicosis caused by work, with other lung disease reports being voluntary.
- The bill would amend existing federal legislation to support the main registry bill.
- The amendments would make protected information unconditionally exempt from freedom of information disclosure.
- The package would create a legislative framework for a national occupational respiratory disease registry.
Doctors who treat respiratory diseases, workers with occupational lung conditions, and federal government agencies are affected.
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