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• Higher Education Support Amendment (Further Streamlining and Other Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: require the minister to automatically revoke a body’s approval as a higher education or VET provider if registration ceases or a winding up order is made; enable a provider’s business entity name to be changed without having to revoke their approval and re-approve with retrospective application; enable the minister to issue a provider with a compliance notice in certain circumstances; update the calculation of indexation to apply to HELP repayment thresholds; and enable the minister to seek information from the relevant tertiary education regulator for the purposes of administration or enforcing compliance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Charges) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Enables the National VET Regulator (NVR) (known as the Australian Skills Quality Authority) to impose charges on NVR registered training organisations for conducting compliance audits and investigating complaints about NVR registered training organisaitons. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Establishes the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency by amending the

  Skills Australia Act 2008

  to: amend the long and short titles of the Act to rename Skills Australia to the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency; broaden the object of the Act to include the provision of advice on the allocation of Commonwealth industry skills and workforce development funding; broaden the functions of the agency in relation to its research, analysis and advisory role; increase the size of the agency from seven to 10 members; expand the current membership criteria; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: clarify the application and operation of indexation arrangements; update the Melbourne College of Divinity’s name to MCD University of Divinity; enable dollar amounts to be rounded up when a partial HELP debt repayment is made; and provide that certain students undertaking courses in dentistry or veterinary science are eligible for the higher FEE-HELP limit. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tourism Australia (Repeal and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tourism 

  Summary

  Further to the Tourism Australia Bill 2004, the bill: repeals the

  Australian Tourist Commission Act 1987

  ; and puts in place transitional arrangements to facilitate the merger of the operations and employees of the Australian Tourist Commission, the Bureau of Tourism Research and the Tourism Forecasting Council into Tourism Australia. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to: extend the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme to 2015-16; reduce the maximum grant to $150 000; reduce the maximum number of grants available for an individual recipient to seven; cap intellectual property registration expenses at $50 000; increase the minimum expenses threshold to $20 000; increase the income limit for members of approved joint ventures/consortia to $50 million; remove approved trading houses as an eligible special approval applicant category; reinstate disqualifying convictions; enable Austrade to impose conditions on the accreditation of EMDG consultants; and make changes in relation to applications submitted by accredited EMDG consultants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• US Free Trade Agreement Implementation Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Introduced with the US Free Trade Agreement Implementation (Customs Tariff) Bill 2004, the bill amends 11 Acts, relating to customs, agricultural and veterinary chemicals, geographical wine indicators, life insurance, foreign acquisitions and takeovers, Commonwealth authorities and companies, therapeutic goods, patents and copyright, in order to implement Australia’s obligations under the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement which is due to commence on 1 January 2005. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to provide that grants are not payable if the applicant or an associate of the applicant are determined by Austrade, in accordance with Ministerial guidelines, to be “not fit and proper” to receive a grant, with effect to grants for grant years commencing after 1 July 2003. Also provides that a determination is review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  in relation to the Export Market Development Grants Scheme by: reducing the income ceiling for applicants to $30 million; removing the $25 million export earnings ceiling; reducing the $200 000 maximum grant to $150 000; reducing the maximum number of grants payable to applicants from eight to seven; and repealing the provision which provides for additional grants for entering new markets. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to increase the minimum grant available under the Export Market Development Grants Scheme from $2 500 to $5 000 effective from the 2001-02 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum