National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) 2024

✦ Plain-English Summary

# National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) 2024

## What it does
This bill makes changes to how the NDIS operates and is governed, with a focus on addressing issues that have built up in the scheme. The exact details of the main amendments aren't fully visible in this excerpt, but it updates the foundational rules in the NDIS Act 2013 and includes a separate section on quality and safeguards.

## Why it matters
The bill's title ("Getting the NDIS Back on Track") signals the government believes the scheme needs correction—likely around cost control, service quality, or how plans are managed. These changes will affect NDIS participants, service providers, and how the scheme operates day-to-day.

## Key details
- **Comes into effect:** 28 days after the Governor-General signs it off
- **Updates disability strategy references:** Changes how the scheme aligns with Australia's Disability Strategy 2021-2031, giving more flexibility for future strategy updates
- **Two main parts:** The bill includes quality and safeguards amendments (Schedule 2) alongside the core changes, suggesting concerns about both the scheme's financial sustainability and service standards

*Note: The full text of specific amendments isn't shown in this excerpt, so the detailed policy changes aren't visible here.*

Official Description

Amends the: National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 to: define National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supports; clarify the process for reassessment of participant status; provide for participants to transition to a new framework plan; provide for new framework plans that include a flexible budget and budget for stated supports; provide for old framework plans to have a total funding amount; update the circumstances in which the National Disability Insurance Agency will manage funds; require participants spend money only on NDIS supports and in accordance with their plan; exempt NDIS rules from sunsetting; impose conditions on approved quality auditors to not employ or engage a person against whom a banning order has been made; and expand the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner’s delegation powers. Also makes consequential amendments to the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 .

Committee Referrals

Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills

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Audit History

Introduced

27 Mar 2024

Last updated on APH

10 Apr 2026

Outcome date

5 Sept 2024

Last checked by Crossbench

today

Full text indexed

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