Bill
Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-03-26. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-03-04
- second reading — 2020-03-04
- third reading — 2020-03-04
- third reading — 2020-03-04
- third reading — 2020-03-04
- introduced — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- third reading — 2020-03-23
- passed — 2020-03-23
- royal assent — 2020-03-26
Divisions
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Ms Hammond from speaking — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 66, noes 78
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Mr Wallace from speaking — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 59, noes 77
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Ms Allen from speaking — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 65, noes 75
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Stop Mr Leeser from speaking — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 63, noes 77
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Put the question — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 74, noes 70
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-03-04.115.5) to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as [standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) - so that the [third reading motion](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) can be moved without delay. To read a bill for a third time is to pass it in the House. — 2020-03-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 77, noes 67
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-26.
This bill would change how the Australian Government calculates funding for non-government schools by using a direct measure of parents' income instead of an area-based socioeconomic status score.
The new direct measure of income methodology would be set out in regulations, and schools would transition to it between 2020 and 2022 when it is most financially beneficial for them.
Non-government schools transitioning to an 80 per cent Commonwealth share of the Schooling Resource Standard would get an extra two years, until 2029, to adjust.
- Replace the term 'SES score' with 'CTC score' in the Act.
- Allow regulations to prescribe a new method for calculating a school's CTC score based on a direct measure of income.
- Allow regulations to alter how the Commonwealth share is calculated and the transition period to manage adverse financial impacts.
- Broaden the definition of 'majority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school' and let the Minister determine such schools to avoid unintended application of the capacity to contribute methodology.
- Amend the Act to provide clear authority and appropriation for GST-inclusive payments.
Non-government schools and their communities, including parents and legal guardians, as well as the Australian Government and the Minister.
Sources
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