Ms Coralee O'Rourke MP

This bill updates Queensland's disability services laws to work alongside the national NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, which commenced in Queensland on 1 July 2019. It ensures that important state-level protections for people with disability — including worker screening, authorisation of restrictive practices, coronial oversight of deaths in care, and community visitor programs — continue under the new national framework.

This bill ensures all disability service workers in Queensland undergo proper criminal history screening before providing services. It closes a gap by making clear that self-employed workers (sole traders) must hold a yellow card, and it enables Queensland Police to share expanded criminal history information with other states as the NDIS rolls out nationally.