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

The majority voted against amendments on sheet 2749 and sheet 2751 circulated by Pauline Hanson's One Nation, which means they will not be included in the bill.

Immediately following this vote, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie requested that "my support for the amendments on sheet 2751 be recorded".

Amendment text

SHEET 2749

(1) Schedule 1, item 4, page 4 (after line 7), after the definition of funding period, insert:

means tested support has the meaning given by subsection 10(7).

(2) Schedule 1, item 6, page 4 (line 14), omit "subsections 10(1) and (4)", substitute "subsections 10(1), (4) and (6)".

(3) Schedule 1, item 11, page 5 (before line 11), before the definition of stated support, insert:

satisfy the means test has the meaning given by subsection 10(8).

(4) Schedule 1, item 14, page 6 (line 3), omit "subsection (4)", substitute "subsections (4) and (6)".

(5) Schedule 1, item 14, page 7 (after line 21), at the end of section 10, add:

Means tested supports

(6) The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may declare that a support is not an NDIS support for a participant or prospective participant if:

(a) the support is a means tested support; and

(b) the participant or prospective participant is in a class of participants or prospective participants; and

(c) the class is declared by the National Disability Insurance Scheme rules as a class of participants or prospective participants that does not satisfy the means test for the means tested support.

(7) The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may declare that a support is a means tested support.

(8) The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may declare that a class of participants or prospective participants does not satisfy the means test for a means tested support.

SHEET 2751

(1) Schedule 1, item 6, page 4 (line 14), omit "subsections 10(1) and (4)", substitute "section 10".

(2) Schedule 1, item 14, page 6 (line 3), omit "subsection (4)", substitute "subsections (4) and (6)".

(3) Schedule 1, item 14, page 7 (after line 21), at the end of section 10, add:

(9) A support is not an NDIS support for a participant or prospective participant if the support includes sex worker services.