Bill 137 explained in plain English
Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week Act, 2024
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 137, the Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week Act, 2024, establishes the first Monday in November annually as a week dedicated to raising awareness and encouraging conversations about senior planning.
This bill proclaims the first Monday in November each year as "Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week" in Ontario. The purpose of this week is to encourage conversations between families, friends, and caregivers about future living arrangements for seniors, promoting proactive planning for their well-being and dignity.
- Proclaims the week beginning on the first Monday in November of each year as "Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week" in Ontario.
- Aims to promote conversations about future arrangements for seniors.
- Seeks to encourage proactive planning to support seniors in living with dignity.
- Seniors in Ontario
- Families of seniors
- Friends of seniors
- Caregivers of seniors
- Ontarians generally
- The week beginning on the first Monday in November each year is proclaimed as Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week.
- The Act came into force on December 19, 2024, the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify any governmental or organizational duties related to the awareness week, nor does it outline any specific activities that must take place during the week.
This law came into effect on the day it received Royal Assent.
Source: Section 2
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