Omnibus Bill: How Schools, Home Education, and Associations Must Operate
Education (General Provisions) Amendment Bill 2025
Topics
data privacy education home education information sharing privacy school administration school enrollment school management student information
Introduced by: The Hon John-Paul Langbroek MP (LNP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
Department public service employees can share personal information about State school students with approved online service providers, but they cannot share sensitive information.
Parents and students can opt out of these online services in writing.
People convicted of an indictable offence cannot serve on a P&C Association Executive Committee or subcommittee.
Principals must share student transfer notes with a student's new school within 10 school days.
Children can register for home education if they are at least 5 years and 6 months old by 31 December of the application year, and this registration is available until December 31 of the year a student turns 18.
Principals can let qualified teachers notify students about suspension decisions.
Special school principals can enrol students transferring from other special schools without chief executive approval.
Associations for State instructional institutions can give money, resources, or services to other institutions or their associations if a disaster or accident has harmed their ability to teach.
The chief executive must give a copy of certain notices to the principal of a non-State school if those notices were sent to the school's governing body.
Principals or governing bodies of non-State schools must provide requested information to the chief executive when asked via a formal notice.
State school principals must tell a student when they are being suspended.
Campus associations of regional State schools can exercise authority over their campus, but they cannot manage the campus, the regional school, or the teaching staff.