Bill
Trade Support Loans Amendment (Improving Administration) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2020-03-06. Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-11-28
- second reading — 2019-11-28
- second reading — 2020-02-10
- second reading — 2020-02-10
- third reading — 2020-02-10
- introduced — 2020-02-10
- second reading — 2020-02-10
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- third reading — 2020-02-24
- passed — 2020-02-24
- royal assent — 2020-03-06
Divisions
- Trade Support Loans Amendment (Improving Administration) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Support vocational education — 2020-02-10, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 68, noes 77
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-11-28.
This bill would change how the Trade Support Loans Program is run.
The Secretary could offset wrongly paid loan instalments against future payments instead of recovering them as debts.
The bill also lets the Secretary give extra time to tell the department about a new address and sets standard notice periods.
- The Secretary may treat an overpaid instalment as a loan payment and reduce a later instalment.
- The Secretary can extend the deadline for reporting a change of address.
- The minimum periods for recipients to notify the Secretary of information are made consistent.
People receiving trade support loans under the Trade Support Loans Act 2014.
Sources
em
em supp
billhome
frl act