Bill
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-05-05. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-03-16
- second reading — 2016-03-16
- other — 2016-04-15
- other — 2016-05-02
- second reading — 2016-05-02
- second reading — 2016-05-02
- third reading — 2016-05-02
- introduced — 2016-05-03
- second reading — 2016-05-03
- second reading — 2016-05-04
- second reading — 2016-05-04
- third reading — 2016-05-04
- passed — 2016-05-04
- royal assent — 2016-05-05
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2016-03-16.
The bill would enlarge the board of the agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
It would increase the number of board members, including the chair, and set a quorum as a majority of members.
The change is meant to give the board the diversity and strength it needs to manage a rapid rise in participants during the transition to the full scheme from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2019.
- Increase the number of board members, including the chair.
- Change the quorum for board meetings to a majority of members.
- Enable the board to handle a rapid increase in NDIS participants during the transition to the full scheme.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency and its board.
Sources
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