Bill 185 explained in plain English
Vision Zero Strategy Act, 2020
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Vision Zero Strategy Act, 2020, mandates the creation and implementation of a provincial strategy to reduce road deaths and serious injuries to zero, along with reporting on progress.
This Act, titled the Vision Zero Strategy Act, 2020, requires the Ontario government to create a strategy aimed at eliminating road deaths and serious injuries on Ontario roads. The strategy must include measures for road design, speed limits, technology, education, enforcement, and protection for vulnerable road users. The Minister of Transportation is responsible for developing the strategy with input from various groups and for reporting annually on the province's progress towards the zero-death goal. The Act also specifies that it comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Requires the Lieutenant Governor in Council to establish the Ontario Vision Zero Strategy.
- Sets the goal of the Strategy to reduce road deaths and serious injuries on Ontario roadways to zero.
- Specifies that the Strategy must be evidence-based and incorporate best practices from other jurisdictions.
- Mandates that the Strategy include measures related to road design, speed limits, technology, education, enforcement, and the protection of vulnerable road users.
- Requires the Minister of Transportation to consult with municipalities, transit providers, and vulnerable road user representatives when developing the Strategy.
- Requires the Minister to make the Strategy publicly available, including on a government website.
- Requires the Minister to table an annual report in the Legislative Assembly on Ontario's progress towards the Strategy's goal.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council
- The Minister of Transportation
- Municipalities
- Municipal transit providers
- Representatives of vulnerable road users (including cyclists, youth, road workers, seniors, and persons with disabilities)
- The general public (as road users)
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council has the obligation to establish the Ontario Vision Zero Strategy.
- The Minister of Transportation has the obligation to consult with specific groups in developing the Strategy.
- The Minister of Transportation has the obligation to make the Strategy publicly available.
- The Minister of Transportation has the obligation to table an annual report on progress towards the Strategy's goal.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Ontario Vision Zero Strategy must be established on or before the first anniversary of the day the Act receives Royal Assent.
- The Strategy takes effect on a date specified within the Strategy, which must be no later than one year after the day the Act receives Royal Assent.
- The specific content of the regulations made under this Act is not detailed in the provided text.
- The exact date the Strategy will become effective is to be specified within the Strategy itself, but it must be within one year of Royal Assent.
- While the Act requires the establishment of the Strategy, the specific mechanisms for ensuring its full implementation and adherence are not detailed in the provided text.
This is the new Act that establishes the requirements for the Vision Zero Strategy.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
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