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• Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: clarify the application and operation of indexation arrangements; update the Melbourne College of Divinity’s name to MCD University of Divinity; enable dollar amounts to be rounded up when a partial HELP debt repayment is made; and provide that certain students undertaking courses in dentistry or veterinary science are eligible for the higher FEE-HELP limit. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Other Measures) Bill 2011 [2012]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide that the minister retains the power to decide an application for approval as a higher education provider although the required timeframe may have expired; require VET providers to notify the minister in writing of events which may affect their ability to comply with quality and accountability requirements; provide for the authorisation of certain uses and disclosures of information; allow the secretary to revoke or vary any determination made to pay an advance to a VET provider in certain circumstances; clarify that a VET provider must provide statistical and other information although an approved form of provision has not been specified; and make administrative arrangements relating to the assessment of an individual’s higher education loan program debt. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: increase the maximum payments for the Commonwealth Grant Scheme in 2011; account for indexation to other grants and Commonwealth scholarships for the 2012 to 2014 calendar years; reduce the HECS-HELP up-front discount from 20 to 10 per cent; reduce the HELP voluntary repayment bonus from 10 to 5 per cent; and clarify that Australian citizens are not entitled to Commonwealth support or to access certain schemes when undertaking a course of study primarily at an overseas campus. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill amends the

  Australian Animal Health Council (Live-stock Industries) Funding Act 1996

  to: enable horse disease response levies to be appropriated to the Australian Animal Health Council; and provide that any excess levies are to be used for research and development activities or the promotion or maintenance of horse health. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill imposes a levy on manufactured horse feed and worm treatments for horses, to enable the horse industry to repay amounts paid by the Commonwealth on behalf of the horse industry in response to an emergency animal disease outbreak affecting horses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill: enables the collection and administration of a horse disease response levy on manufactured horse feed and worm treatments for horses; imposes penalties for unpaid levies and the remission of any penalties for late payments; enables the collection of information and documents as specified by the Commonwealth; provides for entry, search and seizure powers; requires the minister to review the levy mechanism every five years unless the levies are active at the time the review is due. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Demand Driven Funding System and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: remove the annual caps on Commonwealth Grant Scheme funding; change the way in which higher education providers are eligible for that funding; abolish the student learning entitlement; require higher education providers to enter into mission-based compacts with the Commonwealth; and require higher education providers to uphold free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to make administrative changes to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP programs by: requiring the minister to be satisfied that a body corporate is ‘fit and proper’; providing flexibility in the ‘principal purpose’ requirements; enabling the minister to give qualified approvals; providing for procedural fairness before a provider’s approval is suspended; and including new decisions which are subject to review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Human Services 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Medicare Australia Act 1973

  and

  Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency Act 1997

  to: abolish Medicare Australia and Centrelink; abolish the positions of the Chief Executive Officers of these organisations; provide for the functions of the agencies and the CEOs to be integrated into the Department of Human Services (DHS); and amend the long and short titles of the Acts; the

  Medicare Australia Act 1973

  in relation to patient notification when medical records are seized but not examined; the

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to abolish the position of Child Support Registrar and provide for the functions of that position to be integrated into the DHS; and 36 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum