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Bill 166 explained in plain English

Supply Act, 2016

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

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
41st Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill 166
Full title
Supply Act, 2016
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Mar 24, 2016

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.

Chamber
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Current Stage
Royal Assent received
Latest Activity
Mar 24, 2016
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Short Version

The Supply Act, 2016, authorizes Ontario government spending for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016, and repeals two prior acts.

What It Means

This bill, the Supply Act, 2016, authorizes the Ontario government to spend money for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016. It sets out specific amounts for operating expenses, capital investments, and other expenditures for various government ministries and legislative offices. The Act also repeals two previous interim appropriation acts and is scheduled to be repealed itself on April 1, 2017.

What This Bill Does
  • Authorizes spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.
  • Specifies the maximum amounts that can be spent on public service expenses, public service investments (including capital assets, loans, and other investments), and expenses of Legislative Offices.
  • Repeals the Interim Appropriation for 2015-2016 Act, 2015 and the Supplementary Interim Appropriation for 2015-2016 Act, 2015.
  • States that the Act itself will be repealed on April 1, 2017.
  • Deems the Act to have come into force on April 1, 2015.
Who Is Affected
  • The Government of Ontario
  • Ministries of the Government of Ontario
  • Legislative Offices
Important Dates
  • The Act is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2015.
  • The Act is repealed on April 1, 2017.
Financial Or Tax Impacts
  • Authorizes expenditure of $124,092,265,700 for public service expenses for the period from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016.
  • Authorizes expenditure of $4,897,157,000 for public service investments (capital assets, loans, other investments) for the period from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016.
  • Authorizes expenditure of $219,625,600 for expenses of Legislative Offices for the period from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The specific allocation of funds to individual programs within ministries is detailed in the Schedules (A, B, and C) but is not further described in the main text of the Act.
  • The Act refers to 'non-cash expense' and 'non-cash investment' which have the same meaning as in the Financial Administration Act, but the definitions from that Act are not included in this bill.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Interim Appropriation for 2015-2016 Act, 2015
repeals

This Act is cancelled and no longer in effect.

Source: Section 5

Supplementary Interim Appropriation for 2015-2016 Act, 2015
repeals

This Act is cancelled and no longer in effect.

Source: Section 5

Supply Act, 2016
repeals (itself)

This Act will automatically cease to be in effect on April 1, 2017.

Source: Section 4

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
Feb 22, 2016
Step 2
Second reading
Mar 24, 2016
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Mar 24, 2016
Step 5
Royal assent
Mar 24, 2016

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
Deborah Matthews
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