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Committee Report

The committee tabled its report on 13 May 2019. A copy of the report can be viewed here.

About the Bill

On 28 March 2019 the Minister for Communities and Minister for Disability Services and Seniors introduced the Disability Services and Other Legislation (NDIS) Amendment Bill 2019 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Education, Employment and Small Business Committee for detailed consideration.  

The explanatory notes state that the purpose of the Bill is to:

• ensure that Queensland has made all urgent and critical amendments required to support the commencement of the operation of the NDIS Commission from 1 July 2019;
• ensure that the Disability Services Act 2006 (DSA) operates in conjunction with the Commonwealth legislative framework to provide a strong quality and safeguards framework, in particular in relation to the authorisation of restrictive practices and worker screening;
• ensure that existing quality and safeguards under the DSA continue to apply to disability services currently regulated under the DSA that will be outside of the NDIS;
• strengthen the operation of Queensland’s disability worker screening system (the yellow card system) during the transition to new NDIS worker screening;
• amend the Coroners Act 2003 (Coroners Act) to ensure that the deaths of certain NDIS participants must continue to be reported to the State Coroner;
• amend the Public Guardian Act 2014 (PGA) to ensure that community visitors (adult) and (child) must continue to visit visitable sites where certain NDIS participants are in order to protect the participants’ rights and interests; and
• enable appropriate information sharing to occur with the NDIS Commission to assist with the performance of the NDIS commissioner’s functions under the NDIS Act.

View:     Report

View:     Introductory Speech

View:     Bill

View:     Explanatory Notes

A written briefing from the Department of Communities, Disability Services and Seniors is available under the Related Publications tab. The department will attend the public hearing scheduled for 29 April 2019, after invited witnesses, to assist the committee to clarify any issues arising from their written briefing and evidence to the inquiry, and answer committee questions.

Call for submissions

Submissions closed midday, Wednesday 17 April 2019.

Timeline

Submissions close:              Wednesday 17 April 2019

Public hearing:                    Monday 29 April 2019 - Program - Broadcast - Transcript

Public briefing:                    Monday 29 April 2019 - Program - Broadcast - Transcript

Report due date:                 Monday 13 May 2019 - Report

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