National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2026; Third Reading

Summary

This amendment to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 makes the NDIS safer and harder to exploit by giving authorities stronger tools to kick out bad providers, punish rule-breakers more severely, and stop misleading promotion of the scheme. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner gains new powers to ban unsuitable people from providing services, issue orders against misleading marketing, and quickly demand information from providers — while participants get better support if they want to leave the scheme and providers can now shift to electronic claims. These changes address gaps in the current system that allow unsafe or fraudulent operators to continue providing services to some of Australia's most vulnerable people, and they clarify that funding in disability plans can go up or down based on genuine need.

What happens at this stage

The final vote in this chamber on the bill as a whole, after all amendments have been considered. If it passes, the bill moves to the other chamber to go through the same process. If both chambers have already agreed to identical text, the bill proceeds directly to Royal Assent.

Next: The other chamber, which runs the same process from First Reading, or Royal Assent if both chambers have already agreed