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senate vote 2024-05-16#42
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Title
Bills — Health Legislation Amendment (Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement) Bill 2024; Second Reading- Health Legislation Amendment (Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Medicare benefits for services rendered to prisoners
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<p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>I will first deal with the second reading amendment moved by the opposition. The question is that the amendment on sheet 2526 be agreed to.</p>-
- The majority voted against [amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-05-16.254.3) moved by NSW Senator [David Shoebridge](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/david_shoebridge) (NSW), which means it failed.
- ### Amendment text
- > *That the House of Representatives be requested to make the following amendments:*
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- > *(1) Clause 1, page 1 (line 6), after "Arrangement", insert "and Other Measures".*
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- > *(2) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:*
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- >> *3. Schedule 2*
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- >> *The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.*
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- > *(3) Schedule 1, heading, page 3 (line 1), omit "Amendments", substitute "Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement".*
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- > *(4) Page 3 (after line 29), at the end of the Bill, add:*
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- >> *Schedule 2 — Medicare benefits for services rendered to prisoners*
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- >> *Health Insurance Act 1973*
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- >> *1 Subsection 8(1A)*
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- >>> *Insert:*
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- >>>> *in gaol: see subsection (1B).*
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- >> *2 After subsection 8(1A)*
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- >>> *Insert:*
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- >>>> *(1B) For the purposes of this Part, a person is in gaol if:*
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- >>>>> *(a) the person is being lawfully detained (in prison or elsewhere) while under sentence for conviction of an offence and not on release on parole or licence; or*
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- >>>>> *(b) the person is undergoing a period of custody pending trial or sentencing for an offence.*
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- >> *3 After subsection 19(2)*
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- >>> *Insert:*
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- >>>> *(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a professional service that has been rendered to a person if the person was in gaol at the time the service was rendered.*
- > *Statement pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000*
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- > *Amendment (4)*
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- >> *Amendment (4) amends the Health Insurance Act 1973 to provide for Medicare benefits to be payable in respect of professional services rendered to persons in gaol. It is framed as a request because its effect will be to increase the scope of professional services in respect of which Medicare benefits are payable, thereby increasing the amount of payments made from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account and expenditure under the standing appropriation in section 80 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 or in certain circumstancesthe standing appropriation in section 18 of the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.*
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- > *Amendments (1) to (3)*
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- >> *Amendments (1) to (3) are consequential to amendment (4).*
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- > *Statement by the Clerk of the Senate pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000*
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- > *Amendment (4)*
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- >> *If the effect of the amendment is to increase the amount of expenditure under a standing appropriation, then it is in accordance with the precedents of the Senate that the amendment be moved as a request.*
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- > *Amendments (1) to (3)*
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- >> *These amendments are consequential on the request. It is the practice of the Senate that an amendment that is consequential on an amendment framed as a request may also be framed as a request.*
<p>Question agreed to.</p><p>I will now deal with the second reading amendment circulated by Pauline Hanson's One Nation. The question is that the amendment on sheet 2621 be agreed to.</p><p><i>Pauline Hanson's One Nation's circulated amendment</i></p><p class="italic">At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate notes that:</p><p class="italic">(a) extending the role of nurses and midwives working in rural areas should in no way be considered as a substitute for providing additional specialist medical practitioners who are in alarmingly short supply in many regional areas;</p><p class="italic">(b) introducing programs to provide more doctors in rural and regional areas is a priority; and</p><p class="italic">(c) a further option is to expand existing technology linking patients with specialist medical services via on the ground midwifery and nursing personnel".</p><p>Question negatived.</p> <p class="speaker">Malcolm Roberts</p><p>by leave—I ask that One Nation's vote in favour be recorded, please.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Thank you; we will do so.</p> <p class="speaker">Anne Ruston</p><p>by leave—Could you please also record the opposition's support for that amendment?</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Thank you; that will happen. The question now is that the bill be read a second time.</p><p>Question agreed to.</p><p>Bill read a second time.</p><p>I will now deal with the requests for amendments circulated by the Australian Greens. With the concurrence of the Senate, the statements accompanying the requests will be incorporated in the <i>Hansard</i>. The question is that the requests for amendments on sheet 2478 be agreed to.</p><p><i>Australian Green</i> <i>s' circulated </i> <i>requests for </i> <i>amendments</i></p><p class="italic">That the House of Representatives be requested to make the following amendments:</p><p class="italic">(1) Clause 1, page 1 (line 6), after "<i>Arrangement</i>", insert "<i>and Other Measures</i>".</p><p class="italic">(2) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:</p><p class="italic">(3) Schedule 1, heading, page 3 (line 1), omit "Amendments", substitute "Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement".</p><p class="italic">(4) Page 3 (after line 29), at the end of the Bill, add:</p><p class="italic">Schedule 2 — Medicare benefits for services rendered to prisoners</p><p class="italic"> <i>Health Insurance Act 1973</i></p><p class="italic">1 Subsection 8(1A)</p><p class="italic">Insert:</p><p class="italic"><i>in gaol: </i>see subsection (1B).</p><p class="italic">2 After subsection 8(1A)</p><p class="italic">Insert:</p><p class="italic">(1B) For the purposes of this Part, a person is <i>in</i><i>gaol </i>if:</p><p class="italic">(a) the person is being lawfully detained (in prison or elsewhere) while under sentence for conviction of an offence and not on release on parole or licence; or</p><p class="italic">(b) the person is undergoing a period of custody pending trial or sentencing for an offence.</p><p class="italic">3 After subsection 19(2)</p><p class="italic">Insert:</p><p class="italic">(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a professional service that has been rendered to a person if the person was in gaol at the time the service was rendered.</p><p class="italic">__________</p><p class="italic"> <i>Statement pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000</i></p><p class="italic">Amendment (4)</p><p class="italic">Amendment (4) amends the <i>Health Insurance Act 1973</i> to provide for Medicare benefits to be payable in respect of professional services rendered to persons in gaol. It is framed as a request because its effect will be to increase the scope of professional services in respect of which Medicare benefits are payable, thereby increasing the amount of payments made from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account and expenditure under the standing appropriation in section 80 of the <i>Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 </i>or in certain circumstancesthe standing appropriation in section 18 of the <i>Medicare Guarantee Act 2017</i>.</p><p class="italic">Amendments (1) to (3)</p><p class="italic">Amendments (1) to (3) are consequential to amendment (4).</p><p class="italic"> <i>Statement by the Clerk of the Senate pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000</i></p><p class="italic">Amendment (4)</p><p class="italic">If the effect of the amendment is to increase the amount of expenditure under a standing appropriation, then it is in accordance with the precedents of the Senate that the amendment be moved as a request.</p><p class="italic">Amendments (1) to (3)</p><p class="italic">These amendments are consequential on the request. It is the practice of the Senate that an amendment that is consequential on an amendment framed as a request may also be framed as a request.</p><p></p><p></p> -
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