Bill
Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Improving Assistance for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Families) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-09-07. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- second reading — 2020-08-24
- second reading — 2020-08-24
- committee — 2020-08-24
- third reading — 2020-08-24
- introduced — 2020-08-25
- second reading — 2020-08-25
- second reading — 2020-08-26
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- third reading — 2020-08-27
- passed — 2020-08-27
- royal assent — 2020-09-07
Divisions
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-08-24.120.6) to keep the original second reading motion unchanged. A [second reading motion](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) is a motion "*That this bill be now read a second time*" - parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill. This vote was put after Kingston MP [Amanda Rishworth](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/kingston/amanda_rishworth) (Labor) introduced an amendment. ### Proposed amendment > *That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:* > > *"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House notes that:* > > *(1) the Government will snap back to the complex and expensive child care subsidy system on 13 July and end its poorly targeted and unfunded 'free child care' response;* > > *(2) families will start paying child care fees again, even after the Treasurer admitted Australia was in a recession, and fees soared by 7.2 per cent in the last year;* > > *(3) unaffordable child care will now force families, particularly women, to reconsider returning to work and could act as a handbrake on Australia's economic recovery; and* > > *(4) early childhood workers have been ripped out of the JobKeeper program, three days after the Prime Minister promised there would be no changes until September"* — 2020-08-24, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 45, noes 32
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Improving Assistance for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Families) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Put the question — 2020-08-26, Senate: negative, ayes 21, noes 27
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Improving Assistance for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Families) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Put the question — 2020-08-26, Senate: negative, ayes 23, noes 27
Plain-language summary
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Sources
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