Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities, and Other Measures) Bill 2009

Type: Government
Portfolio: Education
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Not Proceeding
Parliament no: 42
Summary: Amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
  and
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
  to: allow higher education providers to impose an annual capped compulsory student services and amenities fee of $250 from 1 July 2009; establish the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP): Services and Amenities-HELP (SA-HELP) to enable eligible students to access a loan for the fee; require higher education providers that receive funding for student places under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme to implement National Access to Services Benchmarks; and
Higher Education Support Act 2003
  to: broaden the guidelines-making powers to vary the VET FEE-HELP debt; allow different requirements to apply to different students undertaking VET units of study; and provide that officers of Tertiary Admission Centres have the same status and duty of care as those of higher education providers in relation to processing student information.

Progress

House of Representatives
11 Feb 2009	Introduced and read a first time
11 Feb 2009	Second reading moved
24 Feb 2009	Second reading debate
26 Feb 2009	Second reading debate
12 Mar 2009	Referred to Main Committee
12 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
16 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
17 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
18 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
18 Mar 2009	Reported from Main Committee Details: Further proceedings on the bill be conducted in the House
18 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
19 Mar 2009	Second reading debate
19 Mar 2009	Second reading agreed to
19 Mar 2009	Third reading agreed to

Senate
20 Mar 2009	Introduced and read a first time
20 Mar 2009	Second reading moved
13 Aug 2009	Second reading debate
17 Aug 2009	Second reading debate
17 Aug 2009	Second reading agreed to
17 Aug 2009	Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 1 Government agreed to
18 Aug 2009	Committee of the Whole debate
18 Aug 2009	Third reading negatived

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Explanatory memoranda

Supplementary explanatory memorandum
Explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate
Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities, and Other Measures) Bill 2009 JOYCE, Sen Barnaby;NASH, Sen Fiona;WILLIAMS, Sen John
Australian Greens [sheet 5736] HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Government [sheet BV228]

Schedules of amendments

No documents at present

Committee Information

No documents at present

Bills Digest

Notes

Referred to Committee (12/02/2009): Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
Committee report (10/03/2009)

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Text of bill

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Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
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Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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