Bill
Better and Fairer Schools (Information Management) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-12-10. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-08-15
- second reading — 2024-08-15
- other — 2024-08-21
- second reading — 2024-08-21
- second reading — 2024-08-21
- other — 2024-08-21
- third reading — 2024-08-21
- introduced — 2024-08-22
- second reading — 2024-08-22
- second reading — 2024-11-26
- second reading — 2024-11-26
- committee — 2024-11-26
- third reading — 2024-11-26
- other — 2024-11-27
- passed — 2024-11-27
- royal assent — 2024-12-10
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 2024-08-15.
This bill would let the student identifier system used in vocational and higher education be expanded to school students.
It would give the Student Identifiers Registrar new powers and duties to assign, collect, use and share school identifiers.
The bill makes school identifiers protected information and sets strict rules for handling them, with breaches treated as privacy interferences under the Privacy Act.
- Expand the Student Identifiers Act 2014 to cover the schools sector.
- Create schools identifiers for school students.
- Classify schools identifiers and related information as protected information with strict restrictions.
- Allow only limited circumstances for collection, use and disclosure of this information.
- Require entities handling schools identifiers to protect them from misuse or unauthorised access.
- Oblige APP entities with annual turnover over $3 million to follow the Privacy Act for this information.
School students, the Student Identifiers Registrar, education authorities and entities that handle school identifier information.
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