Evidence / 2026
Changes to the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 – fact sheet
Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (2026). health.gov.au resource.
- Population
- NDIS participants and providers
- Sample
- Government fact sheet of House amendments (not a sample)
- Condition
- Amendments to contact, permanence, support determinations, automation, pricing and statutory review
- Medication focus
- Not a medication source
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Last reviewed
- 2 September 2026
- Measurement period
- Fact sheet dated 1 July 2026
Plain-language finding
The July 2026 fact sheet records amendments to the introduced bill: specified ‘reasonable attempts’ at contact; a definition of ‘appropriate treatment’ as publicly funded care regularly undertaken in Australia, with restrictive practices excluded; support determinations confined to social, community and civic participation and/or capacity-building daily activities, and required to specify which plans they apply to; publication of specified automated decision-making arrangements at least seven days before they start; tabling of NDIA pricing advice; and an independent statutory review in 2029 covering access, outcomes, review rights, thin markets and interaction with foundational supports.
Important limitation
This is the government’s description of its own House amendments. Later Senate amendments (including the 24-hour-care variation pathway) are not this document. A fact sheet is not the Act.
Why we cite this
Official record of what the revised bill changed relative to the introduced text, before the Senate deal.
access · service-design · australia · ndis
Supported by clinical guidelines, regulatory information, systematic reviews, or well-established pharmacological knowledge. Still describes populations, not an individual.
Claims this source supports
The Act still lets the Minister reduce funding for specified groups of supports. House amendments confined determinations to social, community and civic participation and/or capacity-building daily activities, and required them to name which plans they apply to. A later Senate amendment lets people who need continuous 24-hour care apply for a plan variation within 90 days. That pathway is a subset remedy, not a general exemption.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026
National Legal Aid’s June 2026 submission on the introduced bill warned that it would narrow access, constrain reassessment, raise evidentiary barriers, permit funding reductions by delegated instrument, and weaken practical review. Some of those points were later narrowed by amendment. Some were not. The submission is evidence about the introduced text, not a silent description of the Act as passed.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026
The House agreed to 18 government and 12 crossbench amendments on 1 July 2026. The Senate agreed to 32 government amendments on 18 August 2026 and passed the Bill. The House agreed to the Senate amendments the next day. The final law is not the May text.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026
The Bills Digest of the introduced bill records a proposed definition of functional capacity that assesses the ability to undertake an activity without assistance from other people, assistive technology or modifications, and in a context that excludes, as far as possible, the impact of environmental and personal circumstances. The government later said functional-capacity provisions were revised. New-framework planning is described as considering environmental factors. The public FAQ does not republish the final subsection.
This claim retains disagreement in the literature. Open the classification to read both sides.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026
From 1 January 2028, permanence for NDIS access requires ‘appropriate treatment’ subject to specified exceptions. The introduced digest records that treatment may still count as appropriate even where financial circumstances or geographical location restrict access. House amendments defined appropriate treatment as publicly funded care regularly undertaken in Australia and excluded restrictive practices. They did not remove the basic requirement.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026