Bill 125 explained in plain English
Transparency in Government Bills Act, 2015
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
At a glance
Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Transparency in Government Bills Act, 2015, mandates that the Ontario government provide detailed information about its bills to the Legislative Assembly and post it online when the bills are introduced.
Bill 125, the Transparency in Government Bills Act, 2015, requires the Ontario government to provide specific information when introducing a government bill. This information must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly and posted on its website. The required information includes details about the problem the bill aims to solve, its public policy goals, and a summary of its financial costs to the government, municipalities, the public, and businesses. It also requires information on how the bill might limit competition, its relation to other Ontario laws, potential overlaps with municipal by-laws or federal laws, and if applicable, its impact on Ontario's global competitiveness and a science-based assessment of its effects on the environment or human health.
- Requires specific information to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly when a government bill is introduced.
- Requires this information to be made available on the Assembly website as soon as possible after a government bill is introduced.
- Establishes the types of information that must be provided for government bills.
- The Government of Ontario
- Municipalities
- The public
- Industries and businesses
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Government must provide a statement describing the problem a bill seeks to address.
- Government must provide a statement describing the public policy goals a bill seeks to achieve.
- Government must provide a detailed summary of the financial costs a bill would have on the government, municipalities, the public, and affected industries or businesses.
- Government must describe how the public policy goals justify any limitation on competition caused by the bill, if applicable.
- Government must provide an assessment of the relationship between the bill and other Ontario legislation.
- Government must provide a detailed description of any potential overlap between the bill and existing municipal by-laws or federal legislation.
- Government must describe how the bill will affect Ontario’s competitiveness in the global market, if applicable.
- Government must provide a science-based assessment of how the bill will affect the environment or human health, if applicable.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill requires a detailed summary of the financial costs that government bills would have on the government, municipalities, the public, and any affected industries or businesses.
- The bill does not specify the exact format or level of detail required for the financial cost summaries.
- The bill does not specify the process for how the information will be reviewed or used by the Legislative Assembly.
- The bill does not specify consequences if the required information is not provided or is incomplete.
This Act creates new requirements for the government regarding information that must be provided when introducing government bills.
The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
Source: Section 2
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Vote Summary
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Official sources
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