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Family Law Amendment (A Step Towards a Safer Family Law System) Bill 2020

Type	Private
Originating house	House of Representatives
Status	Not Proceeding
Sponsor	PERRETT, Graham, MP

Summary

Implements certain recommendations of the 2009 Family Law Council's report Improving responses to family violence in the family law system: An advice on the intersection of family violence and family law issues, the 2017 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs' report A better family law system to support and protect those affected by family violence, and the 2019 Australian Law Reform Commission's report Family Law for the Future - An Inquiry into the Family Law System by amending the Family Law Act 1975 to remove provisions relating to the: presumption of equal shared parental responsibility when making parenting orders; and requirement that the courts consider, in certain circumstances, the child spending equal time, or substantial and significant time with each parent.

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	15/06/20
Second reading moved	15/06/20
Referred to Federation Chamber	26/08/20
Second reading debate	26/10/20
Returned to House for further debate	11/11/20
Second reading debate	30/11/20
Referred to Federation Chamber	17/02/21
Second reading debate	22/02/21
Returned to House for further debate	17/03/21
Second reading debate	22/03/21
Referred to Federation Chamber	12/05/21
Second reading debate	24/05/21
Second reading debate	23/06/21
Second reading debate	29/11/21
Lapsed at dissolution	11/04/22