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• Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  to establish a framework to facilitate time-limited trials of trade and customs practices and technologies, with approved entities, in a controlled regulatory environment;

  Australian Border Force Act 2015

  to provide that the Comptroller-General of Customs' powers to make rules in relation to controlled trials cannot be delegated; and

  Customs Act 1901

  ,

  Customs Regulations 2015

  and

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to make technical amendments to customs legislation, including to provide that Notices of Intention to Propose Customs Tariff Alterations will not be subject to disallowance under the

  Legislation Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 4 bills to replace the current system of fuel tax concessions with a single fuel tax credit system from 1 July 2006, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to strengthen customs control over certain goods that are used in the manufacture of excisable goods and to ensure that certain alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products are subject to the same duty, when imported, as is applied under the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  for equivalent products manufactured or produced in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: increase the combined Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) loan limit to $152 700 for students undertaking eligible aviation courses with approved providers on or after 1 January 2020; enable the minister to determine the aviation courses for which the higher HELP loan limit will apply; reduce indexation on a person’s outstanding accumulated HELP debt while they are teaching in a school in a very remote location of Australia; and provide for all or part of a person’s HELP debt associated with their initial teacher education course to be remitted after they have undertaken an equivalent of four years’ full time work in a very remote location of Australia; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  ,

  Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Act 2018

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to allow the Department of Human Services restricted access to higher education data and VET student loans data in order to administer student benefits. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: amend the student identifier requirements for a person's eligibility to receive Commonwealth assistance; provide for new Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt arrangements for rural, remote or very remote health practitioners; provide that units of study undertaken as part of an enabling course will not count towards a student's student learning entitlement; extend the FEE-HELP loan fee exemption to 31 December 2022; provide that domestic students undertaking a microcredential course are eligible for FEE-HELP; and provide that New Zealand citizens are eligible for HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP only if they are a resident in Australia for the duration of the unit; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

   

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to create a new form of Higher Education Loan Program assistance, SY-HELP, which will be available to final year undergraduate students, current post-graduate students and recent graduates in accelerator program courses at Australian universities and university colleges; list Avondale University as a Table B provider;

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to provide that students entitled to SY-HELP assistance may qualify for certain social security payments, including youth allowance and austudy payment, while undertaking an accelerator program course; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: apply indexation to existing appropriation amounts for the 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial years; and insert a new funding cap for the 2025-26 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill amends the:

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide for the administration of each sector by a Tuition Protection Director with specific functions; provide for each sector to be supported by a separate Tuition Protection Fund Advisory Board; require non-exempt providers to contribute annual levies, commensurate with their size and risk; establish two special accounts (the VET Student Loans Tuition Protection Fund and the HELP Tuition Protection Fund); provide assistance to students who may complete their studies with another provider or may have their loan balance re-credited for units of study commenced but not completed due to the provider’s default; and impose certain obligations on default providers and replacement providers;

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to enable the secretary to refuse to revoke an approval on request if certain compliance action is being taken; and

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Tuition Protection Service) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a tuition protection service, the bill amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  to make amendments consequent on the proposed

  Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection Service and Other Measures) Act 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Youth 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2021, Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Bill 2021 and Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment Bill 2021, the bill amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  to: replace the annual registration and entry to market charges by imposing an annual charge payable by providers who are registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS); and impose a charge for applications by schools for initial registration and renewal of registration on CRICOS. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection Service and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a tuition protection service, the bill amends: the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: place obligations on registered international education providers when a provider fails to start or finish providing a course or when an overseas student fails to start or finish a course; provide for a national regime of national registration of providers; limit the amount of initial pre-paid fees that may be collected by a registered provider; provide that students are only eligible for a refund of the unused portion of prepaid tuition fees; and specify what details providers must keep on student records; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Assurance Fund Contributions) Act 2000

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Contingency Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: implement certain recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report of the inquiry on the future conduct of elections operating during times of emergency situations

  by enabling the Electoral Commissioner to make limited operational modifications by legislative instrument where an emergency declaration has been issued under a Commonwealth law and moving the existing power to adjourn or suspend polling at a polling place or pre-poll voting office from local polling booth presiding officers to the Electoral Commissioner; delay the commencement of the scrutiny for a House of Representatives election for a Division where polling has been adjourned or temporarily suspended; prevent scrutineers and Australian Electoral Commission officers from disclosing the results of a Senate election in a Division where polling has been adjourned; and make minor amendments in relation to the cut-off date for postal vote applications and the format of postal vote certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum