Bill 196 explained in plain English
Supply Act, 2018
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This Act authorizes Ontario government spending for the 2017-2018 fiscal year and repeals previous supply acts.
Bill 196, the Supply Act, 2018, authorizes the Ontario government to spend a total of $138,894,069,700 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018. This amount includes $133,551,536,900 for the expenses of the public service, $5,342,532,800 for public service investments (such as capital assets and loans), and $251,845,200 for the expenses of the Legislative Offices. The Act also repeals two previous supply acts and is itself repealed on April 1, 2019. It is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2017.
- Authorizes the expenditure of money for the public service for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- Authorizes the expenditure of money for investments of the public service for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- Authorizes the expenditure of money for the expenses of the Legislative Offices for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- Repeals the Interim Appropriation for 2017-2018 Act, 2016.
- Repeals the Supplementary Interim Appropriation for 2017-2018 Act, 2017.
- States that this Act is repealed on April 1, 2019.
- Deems this Act to have come into force on April 1, 2017.
- The Ontario government
- The Legislative Offices
- This Act is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2017.
- This Act is repealed on April 1, 2019.
- Authorizes expenditure of $133,551,536,900 for public service expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- Authorizes expenditure of $5,342,532,800 for public service investments (capital assets, loans, etc.) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- Authorizes expenditure of $251,845,200 for Legislative Offices expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
- The Act does not specify the exact distribution of funds within the broad categories of public service expenses or investments, beyond referencing the estimates and votes.
- The definition of 'non-cash expense' and 'non-cash investment' refer to the Financial Administration Act, but the details of those definitions are not included in this Act.
This Act is repealed.
Source: Section 5
This Act is repealed.
Source: Section 5
This Act will be repealed on April 1, 2019.
Source: Section 4
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