Division
The majority voted against the [request for amendment (1) on sheet 3372](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Famend%2Fs1458_amend_f5477ab2-d5c4-4e6a-9ba1-7a92795cf862%22;rec=0), as moved by Victorian Senator [Lidia Thorpe](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/lidia_thorpe) (Independent), which meant it failed. ### Amendment text > *(1) Page 31 (after line 28), after Schedule 2, insert:* > > *Schedule 2A—Medicare benefit payable for services provided to persons in places of detention* > > *Health Insurance Act 1973* > > *1 After subsection 19(2)* > > *Insert:* > >> *(2A) Despite subsection (2), a medicare benefit is payable in respect of a professional service if:* >> >>> *(a) the professional service has been rendered by, or on behalf of, or under an arrangement with:* >>> >>>> *(i) the Commonwealth;* >>>> >>>> *(ii) a State;* >>>> >>>> *(iii) a local governing body; or* >>>> >>>> *(iv) an authority established by a law of the Commonwealth, a law of a State or a law of an internal territory; and* >>> >>> *(b) the professional service has been rendered in relation to a person who is in prison or another place of detention or has been recently released from prison or another place of detention; and* >>> >>> *(c) the professional service is of a kind specified in an instrument made under subsection (2B).* >> >> *(2B) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, specify one or more kinds of professional services for the purposes of paragraph (2A)(c).* >> >> *(2C) The first instrument made under subsection (2B) must be made by the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this subsection commences.*
Senate, 2025-07-28. negative: ayes 13, noes 35.
Question
The majority voted against the [request for amendment (1) on sheet 3372](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Famend%2Fs1458_amend_f5477ab2-d5c4-4e6a-9ba1-7a92795cf862%22;rec=0), as moved by Victorian Senator [Lidia Thorpe](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/lidia_thorpe) (Independent), which meant it failed. ### Amendment text > *(1) Page 31 (after line 28), after Schedule 2, insert:* > > *Schedule 2A—Medicare benefit payable for services provided to persons in places of detention* > > *Health Insurance Act 1973* > > *1 After subsection 19(2)* > > *Insert:* > >> *(2A) Despite subsection (2), a medicare benefit is payable in respect of a professional service if:* >> >>> *(a) the professional service has been rendered by, or on behalf of, or under an arrangement with:* >>> >>>> *(i) the Commonwealth;* >>>> >>>> *(ii) a State;* >>>> >>>> *(iii) a local governing body; or* >>>> >>>> *(iv) an authority established by a law of the Commonwealth, a law of a State or a law of an internal territory; and* >>> >>> *(b) the professional service has been rendered in relation to a person who is in prison or another place of detention or has been recently released from prison or another place of detention; and* >>> >>> *(c) the professional service is of a kind specified in an instrument made under subsection (2B).* >> >> *(2B) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, specify one or more kinds of professional services for the purposes of paragraph (2A)(c).* >> >> *(2C) The first instrument made under subsection (2B) must be made by the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this subsection commences.*
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