Bill 184 explained in plain English
College and University Student Associations Act, 2011
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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The College and University Student Associations Act, 2011, aims to recognize, regulate, and ensure the financial and operational autonomy of student associations at Ontario post-secondary institutions.
This bill, the College and University Student Associations Act, 2011, aims to establish a legal framework for student associations at Ontario's post-secondary educational institutions. It seeks to acknowledge their independence, ensure they are well-governed and accountable to their members, foster cooperation between these associations and the institutions, and guarantee that institutions collect and pay student fees to the associations. The bill also makes a technical change by updating references from the old Corporations Act to the new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010.
- Recognizes the autonomy of student associations at post-secondary educational institutions.
- Provides for the good governance of student associations.
- Requires student associations to be accountable to their members.
- Promotes collaboration and agreement between student associations and post-secondary educational institutions.
- Ensures that post-secondary educational institutions collect and remit fees levied by student associations.
- Updates references in the definition of 'student association' and in provisions related to fee collection to refer to the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010, instead of the Corporations Act.
- Student associations at post-secondary educational institutions in Ontario
- Students who are members of these student associations
- Post-secondary educational institutions in Ontario (colleges and universities)
- Student associations have the right to levy fees on their members and administer funds.
- Post-secondary institutions have an obligation to collect and remit fees to student associations if an agreement is in place, or within 60 days if no agreement exists.
- Post-secondary institutions may cease collecting or remitting fees if a student association (subject to the Corporations Act) fails to comply with that Act.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent, with the exception of Section 7.
- Section 7 comes into force on the later of the day subsection 211 (1) of the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 comes into force and the day this Act receives Royal Assent.
- A post-secondary institution may cease collecting or remitting fees to a student association if the association fails to comply with the Corporations Act (as updated by this bill).
- The Act does not specify what happens if a student association fails to comply with the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010, only referencing the Corporations Act in the context of ceasing fee collection.
- The specific content of regulations that may be made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council is not detailed in the Act.
Establishes a new act governing student associations at post-secondary institutions.
Source: All sections
Replaces references to the Corporations Act with the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010, within the definition of 'student association' and regarding fee collection procedures.
Source: Section 7(1) and 7(2)
The definition of 'student association' is updated to refer to this Act, and fee collection procedures are also updated to reference it.
Source: Section 7(1) and 7(2)
The Lieutenant Governor in Council is empowered to make regulations on any matter referred to as 'prescribed by the regulations' in this Act.
Source: Section 6
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