Bill 55 explained in plain English
Education Amendment Act (Organ Donation Education), 2010
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This bill amends the Education Act to mandate organ donation education for high school students, with provisions for exemptions based on belief or personal reasons.
Bill 55, the Education Amendment Act (Organ Donation Education), 2010, amends the Education Act to require the Minister to create a policy framework for organ donation education. School boards will be required to include this education in the curriculum for students in the senior division. The goal is to ensure that every student who receives an Ontario Secondary School Diploma has learned about the importance of organ donation. However, students can be exempted from this education based on religious beliefs, cultural beliefs or prohibitions, or similar personal reasons.
- Requires the Minister of Education to establish a policy framework for organ donation education.
- Requires school boards to include organ donation education in the curriculum for students in the senior division.
- Ensures that students receiving an Ontario Secondary School Diploma will have learned about the importance of organ donation, subject to exceptions.
- Permits students to be exempted from organ donation education for religious, cultural, or personal reasons.
- The Minister of Education
- Ontario school boards
- Students in the senior division of secondary schools
- Parents or guardians of students
- The Minister is obligated to establish an organ donation education policy framework.
- School boards are obligated to include organ donation education in the curriculum for senior division students.
- Students have the right to be exempted from organ donation education based on religious belief, cultural beliefs or prohibitions, or similar personal reasons.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The specific details of the 'organ donation education policy framework' are not detailed in the bill.
- The specific curriculum content for organ donation education is not detailed in the bill.
Adds requirements for the Minister to establish an organ donation education policy framework and for school boards to include this education in the curriculum for senior division students. It also adds provisions for student exemptions from this education.
Source: Section 1(1) and 1(2)
Adds new subsections concerning the establishment of an organ donation education policy framework and allowing for student exemptions.
Source: Section 1(1) and 1(2)
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