Committee Details

COMMITTEE’S REPORT

The Committee tabled its Report No. 2, 58th Parliament – Education (General Provisions) Amendment Bill 2025 on 2 May 2025.  The government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations. Once tabled, the government response will be published here. The report will be debated in the Legislative Assembly in due course.

View: Report
View: Executive Summary

ABOUT THE BILL

On 14 March 2025 the Hon John-Paul Langbroek MP, Minister for Education and the Arts, introduced the Education (General Provisions) Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Education, Arts and Communities Committee for detailed consideration. 

View: Explanatory Speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility 

The Bill proposed to amend the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 and other legislation to reduce the regulatory burden and red tape on schools, parents and students by:

• streamlining student access to online services for digital learning
• extending the age eligibility of students in home education to 31 December in the year the student turns 18
• allowing separate P&Cs Associations for schools with multiple campuses and enabling donations between P&Cs under special circumstances
• further clarifying the provision of information by non-state schools to the Department of Education in relation to school attendance and enrolment
• further clarifying the eligibility criteria of children to access eKindy
• implementing a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) in relation to information sharing between Queensland schools when students transfer, and
• amend Queensland statutes by making minor and technical amendments.

Call for submissions

Submissions closed at 5pm on Friday 4 April 2025. Submissions accepted by the committee can be viewed under the “Submissions” tab above.

Further information

Further information (including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and any answers to questions taken on notice at public proceedings) have been published under the Related Publications tab. Submissions received and accepted by the committee have been published under the “View Submissions” tab above.

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