Bill
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2013
passed, as at 2014-02-28. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-12-10
- second reading — 2013-12-10
- third reading — 2013-12-10
- introduced — 2013-12-10
- second reading — 2013-12-10
- second reading — 2014-02-13
- second reading — 2014-02-13
- third reading — 2014-02-13
- passed — 2014-02-13
- royal assent — 2014-02-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-14.
This bill would update the funding limits for Australian Research Council grant programs to account for inflation and add a new spending year.
It would change three existing annual funding amounts and set a figure for the year starting 1 July 2016.
The extra spending over four financial years would be $814.876 million.
- The bill would apply indexation to funding caps for three financial years: 2013–14, 2014–15 and 2015–16.
- It would add a funding figure for the financial year starting 1 July 2016.
- It would increase the special appropriation available to the Australian Research Council by $814.876 million over four years.
The Australian Research Council and researchers who receive grants through the National Competitive Grants Program.
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