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Bill 46 explained in plain English

Supply Act, 2012

Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
40th Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill 46
Full title
Supply Act, 2012
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Apr 24, 2012

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.

Chamber
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Current Stage
Royal Assent received
Latest Activity
Apr 24, 2012
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Short Version

The Supply Act, 2012, authorizes Ontario's government to spend a total of $118,174,959,000 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, and repeals two previous acts.

What It Means

This bill authorizes the Ontario government to spend money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012. It specifies the amounts for public service expenses, public service investments (like capital assets and loans), and legislative offices. It also repeals two previous interim appropriation acts and states that it is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2011.

What This Bill Does
  • Authorizes the expenditure of money for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.
  • Specifies the total amounts authorized for public service expenses, public service investments, and expenses of legislative offices.
  • Repeals the Interim Appropriation for 2011-2012 Act, 2010 and the Supplementary Interim Appropriation Act, 2011.
  • States that the Act is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2011.
Who Is Affected
  • Ontario Government (Ministries and Legislative Offices)
  • Ontario taxpayers (indirectly, through government spending)
Important Dates
  • The Act is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2011.
  • The authorized expenditures are for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.
Financial Or Tax Impacts
  • Authorizes spending of $114,458,134,000 for public service expenses.
  • Authorizes spending of $3,515,825,000 for public service investments.
  • Authorizes spending of $196,961,600 for legislative offices.
  • Total authorized spending is $118,170,920,600.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The specific details of how the funds will be applied are set out in the 'estimates' and 'votes and items' referred to in the Act, which are not included in the bill text itself.
  • The bill references definitions from the Financial Administration Act, but does not redefine them within this bill.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Interim Appropriation for 2011-2012 Act, 2010
repeals

This law is cancelled.

Source: Section 4

Supplementary Interim Appropriation Act, 2011
repeals

This law is cancelled.

Source: Section 4

Financial Administration Act
amends

This Act is referenced for the definitions of 'non-cash expense' and 'non-cash investment'. The bill does not change the Financial Administration Act itself but uses its definitions.

Source: Section 1

Generated using AI from official bill text. Not legal advice. It is written by PoliticalData.ca for civic education, automatically checked and spot-reviewed before publishing.

Official text

Process Snapshot

Step 1
First reading
Mar 8, 2012
Step 2
Second reading
Mar 21, 2012
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Mar 21, 2012
Step 5
Royal assent
Apr 24, 2012

Vote Summary

No published recorded division

This bill does not have a published recorded division in the current official sources, so representative-by-representative vote counts are not shown.

Sponsor
Dwight Duncan
Sponsor party or district not listed
Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature

No published representative vote breakdown

The current official sources do not publish a recorded division breakdown for this bill, so there is no representative-by-representative table to show.

Official sources

Status, sponsor, votes, and timeline on this page are drawn from these official legislative sources and public records. Each summary above is attributed to its own source.

How this data is sourced