National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Summary

Amends the: National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 in relation to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to: define ‘functional capacity’; limit unscheduled plan reassessments; clarify the requirement for support needs to be directly related to a participant’s eligible impairments; enable the Minister to reduce funding for specified groups of supports; introduce plan end dates and renewal processes; refine the framework for assessing ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports and update principles applying to participants and their plans; clarify the definition of permanence by introducing the concept of ‘all appropriate treatment’; require consideration of a participant’s eligibility for other service systems when determining access to the NDIS; expand the National Disability Insurance Agency’s powers to identify, investigate and respond to fraud and non-compliance and to ensure the integrity of the NDIS; amend governance arrangements relating to pricing decisions, indexation of old framework plans and the automation of administrative actions; and provide for transitional arrangements; Crimes Act 1914 to make a consequential amendment; and National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 and National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Act 2024 to support the implementation of new framework planning arrangements