Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023

Summary

Amends the: Higher Education Support Act 2003 to create a new form of Higher Education Loan Program assistance, SY-HELP, which will be available to final year undergraduate students, current post-graduate students and recent graduates in accelerator program courses at Australian universities and university colleges; list Avondale University as a Table B provider; Social Security Act 1991, Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 and Student Assistance Act 1973 to provide that students entitled to SY-HELP assistance may qualify for certain social security payments, including youth allowance and austudy payment, while undertaking an accelerator program course; and Australian Research Council Act 2001 to: apply indexation to existing appropriation amounts for the 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial years; and insert a new funding cap for the 2025-26 financial year.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	09 Mar 2023
Second reading moved	09 Mar 2023
Second reading debate	21 Mar 2023
Referred to Federation Chamber	21 Mar 2023
Second reading debate	22 Mar 2023
Reported from Federation Chamber	23 Mar 2023
Second reading agreed to	23 Mar 2023
Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 93 Crossbench agreed to	23 Mar 2023
Third reading agreed to	23 Mar 2023

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	27 Mar 2023
Second reading moved	27 Mar 2023
Second reading debate	19 Jun 2023
Second reading agreed to	19 Jun 2023
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 2 Opposition agreed to Requests details: 2 Government agreed to	19 Jun 2023
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 2 Independent (Senator Pocock) [as amended] agreed to	20 Jun 2023
Bill agreed to, subject to requests	20 Jun 2023

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House made Senate requested amendments	20 Jun 2023

Senate
Third reading agreed to	21 Jun 2023

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendments	22 Jun 2023


Finally passed both Houses	22 Jun 2023
Assent Act no: 36 Year: 2023	28 Jun 2023

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Third reading

As passed by both Houses

Explanatory memoranda

Addendum to explanatory memorandum

Explanatory memorandum

Revised explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

House of representatives

Detail - Crossbench
SCAMPS, Sophie, MP

Senate

2R - Australian Greens [sheet 1948]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

2R - Opposition [1938]
HENDERSON, Sen Sarah

CW - Australian Greens [sheet 1931 revised]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

CW - Government [sheet PF120]

CW - Independent [sheet 2017]
POCOCK, Sen David

CW - Opposition [sheet 1937 revised 2]
HENDERSON, Sen Sarah

CW - Opposition [1936]
HENDERSON, Sen Sarah

CW - Opposition [sheet 1965 revised]
HENDERSON, Sen Sarah

Schedules of amendments

Schedules of the requests by the Senate for amendments and the amendments made by the Senate

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

Considered by scrutiny committee (22/03/2023): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 6 of 2023
Referred to Committee (23/03/2023): Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee; Committee report (28/04/2023)
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

Helpful information

Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to either the Votes and Proceedings (House of Representatives) or the Journals (Senate).

Schedules of amendments

Schedules of amendments list amendments agreed to by the second house are communicated to the first house for consideration. Subsequent action by either house may also be included in a schedule.