Bill 5 explained in plain English
Home Care and Community Services Amendment Act (Dan's Law), 2018
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill 5, the Home Care and Community Services Amendment Act (Dan's Law), 2018, amends the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994, to prevent newly arrived residents from other Canadian provinces or territories from being denied funded services due to waiting periods.
This bill, also known as Dan's Law, makes changes to the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994. It ensures that individuals who move to Ontario from another Canadian province or territory, and who had public health insurance in their previous location, will not be denied funded home care and community services due to a waiting period. This means they can access these services immediately upon establishing residency in Ontario, even if a waiting period would normally apply.
- Amends the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994.
- Adds a new section (57.1) to Part XI of the Act.
- Prohibits the denial of funded services based on recent residency in Ontario for individuals moving from other Canadian provinces or territories.
- Ensures these individuals are not subject to waiting periods for funded services.
- Specifies that this applies even if a waiting period would normally be in effect.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Individuals who move to Ontario from another Canadian province or territory.
- Individuals who were insured under a publicly funded health care insurance plan in their previous Canadian province or territory.
- Providers of funded home care and community services in Ontario.
- Individuals moving to Ontario from other Canadian provinces or territories with public health insurance are not to be denied funded services due to a waiting period.
- Individuals retain the right to funded services without the application of a waiting period that would otherwise apply.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify what constitutes 'funded services' beyond home care and community services.
- The bill does not detail the process for verifying previous provincial or territorial health insurance coverage.
- The bill does not define the specific types or levels of funded services that are exempt from waiting periods.
This Act is amended to add a new section that prevents individuals moving to Ontario from other Canadian provinces or territories, who had public health insurance there, from being denied funded home care and community services due to a waiting period.
Source: Section 1
A new section (57.1) is added to this part of the Act, specifically addressing the eligibility for funded services for new residents of Ontario who are moving from other Canadian provinces or territories.
Source: Section 1
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