Bill 54 explained in plain English
Home Care and Community Services Amendment Act (Dan's Law), 2016
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill 54, the Home Care and Community Services Amendment Act (Dan's Law), 2016, ensures new Ontario residents from other Canadian provinces or territories with public health insurance are not subject to waiting periods for funded home care and community services.
This bill amends the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994, to ensure that individuals moving to Ontario from another Canadian province or territory, who were covered by a publicly funded health insurance plan in their previous location, are not denied funded home care and community services due to a waiting period. It adds a new section to the Act specifying this.
- Amends the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994.
- Adds a new section (57.1) to the Act.
- Prohibits the denial of funded home care and community services to individuals who are new residents of Ontario, coming directly from another Canadian province or territory where they had public health insurance.
- Ensures these new residents are not subject to waiting periods that would otherwise apply for these services.
- Specifies that this change applies despite any waiting period that would normally be in place.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Individuals moving to Ontario from another Canadian province or territory.
- Individuals who had publicly funded health insurance in their previous province or territory.
- Providers of funded home care and community services in Ontario.
- The Minister responsible for the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994.
- Individuals moving to Ontario from other Canadian provinces or territories with public health insurance have the right not to be denied funded services due to a waiting period.
- Service providers must not deny funded services to eligible new residents based on them having recently taken up residence.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify the exact definition of 'funded services' or 'publicly funded health insurance plan' beyond the context provided.
- The bill does not outline the process for applying for or receiving these services, nor does it detail any specific administrative procedures related to this amendment.
Adds a new section that prevents new residents of Ontario, who are moving from another Canadian province or territory with public health insurance, from being denied funded home care and community services due to a waiting period.
Source: Section 1
Adds a new section (57.1) regarding funded services for new residents.
Source: Section 1
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