Bill
Immigration (Education) Amendment (Expanding Access to English Tuition) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-17. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-10-29
- second reading — 2020-10-29
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- introduced — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- third reading — 2020-12-10
- passed — 2020-12-10
- royal assent — 2020-12-17
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 2020-10-29.
This bill would let more migrants get government-funded English lessons.
It would remove the limit on tuition hours, raise the English level required to stop qualifying, and scrap deadlines for some people who were in Australia before October 2020.
Migrants outside Australia who hold or apply for certain visas could also receive tuition to prepare for moving here.
- Remove the statutory cap on tuition hours per person.
- Raise the qualifying English level to vocational English.
- Drop time limits for starting and finishing English classes for certain people onshore before 1 October 2020.
- Allow English tuition for some visa holders or applicants overseas.
Migrants with low English proficiency who are currently ineligible or have used up their tuition hours.
Sources
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