Bill
Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-08-21. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-05-25
- second reading — 2023-05-25
- second reading — 2023-06-01
- second reading — 2023-06-14
- second reading — 2023-06-14
- third reading — 2023-06-14
- introduced — 2023-06-14
- second reading — 2023-06-14
- second reading — 2023-08-08
- second reading — 2023-08-09
- second reading — 2023-08-09
- committee — 2023-08-09
- third reading — 2023-08-09
- passed — 2023-08-09
- royal assent — 2023-08-21
Divisions
- Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023 and Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2023 - Second Reading - More support and no students fees for sector — 2023-08-09, Senate: negative, ayes 9, noes 27
- Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023 and Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2023 - in Committee - Abolish indexation & raise min. repayment income — 2023-08-09, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 25
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-05-25.
This bill is part of a package that would let the minister expand trade support loans to apprentices in sectors like aged care, disability care and childcare.
The bill would replace the current priority list with a new one the minister sets based on advice from Jobs and Skills Australia.
The bill would also let the secretary give apprentices more time to apply for a loan payment instalment.
- The bill would end the current TSL Priority List.
- The bill would let the minister make a new Australian Apprenticeships Priority List by legislative instrument after considering advice from Jobs and Skills Australia.
- The bill would expand qualifying apprenticeships to include occupations on the new list, opening loans to people in other ANZSCO groups.
- The bill would let the secretary delay the deadline for applying for a loan instalment.
Apprentices and trainees in sectors experiencing skills shortages, such as aged care, disability care and childcare.
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