Bill
Education Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-11-29. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-10-27
- second reading — 2022-10-27
- other — 2022-11-08
- second reading — 2022-11-08
- second reading — 2022-11-08
- other — 2022-11-09
- third reading — 2022-11-09
- introduced — 2022-11-21
- second reading — 2022-11-21
- second reading — 2022-11-23
- second reading — 2022-11-23
- third reading — 2022-11-23
- passed — 2022-11-23
- royal assent — 2022-11-29
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 2022-10-27.
This bill would change the rules for Commonwealth higher education funding and student loans.
It would require students to provide a unique student identifier to their university and the government to be eligible for financial help.
The bill would also remove a 10 per cent discount for upfront HECS-HELP payments and exempt FEE-HELP loan fees for units studied in 2022.
- Require students to have and give a unique student identifier to their provider and the Secretary to get Commonwealth assistance.
- Clarify that enabling course units do not count towards a student's lifetime limit on Commonwealth support.
- Make domestic students in microcredential courses eligible for FEE-HELP.
- Reduce FEE-HELP debt by exempting the loan fee for units studied in 2022.
- Limit HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP eligibility for New Zealand citizens to those resident in Australia for the unit's duration.
- Remove the 10 per cent discount for upfront HECS-HELP payments.
Higher education students, providers, and New Zealand citizens studying in Australia.
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