Bill 5 explained in plain English
Bill of Rights for Pupils with Diabetes, 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 creates a specific set of rights for students with diabetes in Ontario schools, ensuring they can manage their condition while attending school.
This bill establishes a "Bill of Rights for Pupils with Diabetes, 2010" in Ontario. It outlines specific rights for students with diabetes while they are at school. These rights include the ability to check blood sugar, treat low blood sugar with sugar, inject insulin, eat snacks, have adequate time for meals, access water and bathrooms, and participate in physical activities and field trips. The bill also states that school boards and school authorities must ensure these rights are respected and enforced. Definitions related to education in this act will use the same meanings as found in the Education Act.
- Establishes a bill of rights for pupils with diabetes while they are at school.
- Specifies rights including self-monitoring blood sugar, treating hypoglycemia, self-administering insulin, eating snacks, taking adequate time for meals, accessing water and bathrooms, and participating in school activities.
- Requires district school boards and school authorities to ensure these rights are enforced.
- States that educational terms used in the bill will have the same meaning as in the Education Act.
- Comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Pupils with diabetes
- District school boards
- School authorities
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to check blood sugar levels.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to treat hypoglycemia with emergency sugar.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to inject insulin when necessary.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to eat snacks when necessary.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to eat lunch at an appropriate time and have enough time to finish.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to free and unrestricted access to water and the bathroom.
- Pupils with diabetes have the right to participate fully in physical education, gym classes, and extracurricular activities, including field trips.
- District school boards and school authorities have a duty to ensure the bill of rights for pupils with diabetes is respected and enforced.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify the process or mechanism by which school boards and authorities will ensure the rights are enforced.
- The bill relies on the definitions found in the Education Act for educational terms, which are not detailed within this bill text.
- The bill does not specify any penalties for failing to uphold these rights.
Provides definitions for terms related to education used in this bill.
Source: Section 3
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