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Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Political Donations and Other Measures) Bill 2010

Type	Government
Originating house	House of Representatives
Status	Before Senate
Portfolio	Special Minister of State

Summary

Amends the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to: reduce the disclosure threshold to $1000; require certain persons making gifts at or above the threshold to furnish returns within specified time periods; ensure that for the purposes of the disclosure threshold related political parties are treated as one entity; prohibit the receipt of a gift of foreign property and certain anonymous gifts by registered political parties, candidates and members of a Senate group; provide that public funding of election campaigning is limited to the lesser amount of either the actual electoral expenditure or the amount awarded per vote where the four per cent threshold is satisfied; include five additional categories of electoral expenditure in relation to the rental of premises, payment of additional staff, purchase and hire of office equipment, consumables and running costs for equipment and travel and accommodation; prevent sitting members of Parliament from claiming electoral expenditure if allowances, entitlements or benefits received are used to meet that expenditure; extend existing recovery powers; and introduce new offences and penalties and increase penalties for existing offences.

Progress of bill

For committee reference information, please see the Notes section at the end of this page.

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	20/10/10
Second reading moved	20/10/10
Second reading debate	16/11/10
Second reading debate	17/11/10
Second reading agreed to	17/11/10
Third reading agreed to	17/11/10

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	17/11/10
Second reading moved	17/11/10