Bill PR79 explained in plain English
Kingston Health Sciences Centre 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, 3rd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Kingston Health Sciences Centre Act, 2018, ensures that donations intended for the former Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital are managed by the Kingston Health Sciences Centre for their original purposes.
This Ontario Act ensures that donations and grants made to the former Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital, or to the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation for their benefit, will continue to be used by the Kingston Health Sciences Centre for the original intended purposes. It clarifies how these funds should be managed and applied by the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, taking into account any specific conditions attached to the donations. The Act applies to all such gifts and grants, regardless of when the documents establishing them were created.
- Ensures that gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, and grants of property made to Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital are considered as being made to Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
- Ensures that gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, and grants of property made to the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation for the benefit of Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital are considered as being made to the Foundation for the benefit of Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
- Specifies that the Kingston Health Sciences Centre must use these gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, and grants for the purposes originally intended for Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital, subject to any restrictions in the original donation.
- States that the Act applies to documents creating these gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, or grants, regardless of whether they were made before or after the Act came into force.
- Kingston Health Sciences Centre
- Kingston General Hospital
- Hotel Dieu Hospital (Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph of the Hotel Dieu of Kingston)
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation
- Donors and beneficiaries of gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, and grants to the specified hospitals or the Foundation.
- The Kingston Health Sciences Centre has the obligation to use designated gifts, trusts, bequests, devises, and grants for the specific purposes they were originally intended for, as defined by the letters patent of Kingston General Hospital (as of March 31, 2017) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (as of March 31, 2017), including obligations related to its religious affiliation.
- The Foundation is directed to administer funds for the benefit of Kingston Health Sciences Centre in relation to these previous donations.
- The Act came into force on May 7, 2018, the day it received Royal Assent.
- The specific purposes of Kingston General Hospital as set out in its letters patent on March 31, 2017, are not detailed within this Act.
- The specific obligations of Hotel Dieu Hospital as a hospital affiliated with a religious organization and its detailed description in the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada’s Health Ethics Guide are not fully detailed within this Act, beyond stating they must be adhered to.
This is the Act itself, establishing rules for how the Kingston Health Sciences Centre handles past donations.
Source: Preamble, Sections 1-7
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