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Bill 230 explained in plain English

Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week Act, 2021

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

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
42nd Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill 230
Full title
Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week Act, 2021
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Jun 3, 2021

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd 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
Jun 3, 2021
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

Our plain-language take, written for civic education.

Source: By PoliticalData.ca

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Short Version

Bill 230 proclaims the third full week of March annually as Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week in Ontario.

What It Means

This bill proclaims the third full week of March each year as "Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week" in Ontario. The bill acknowledges the vital role front-line and essential service workers played during the COVID-19 pandemic and their ongoing importance to the province's economic recovery.

What This Bill Does
  • It establishes the third full week of March each year as "Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week" in Ontario.
  • It provides the short title of the Act as the "Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week Act, 2021."
Who Is Affected
  • Front-line and essential service workers in Ontario
  • The public in Ontario
Important Dates
  • The Act came into force on June 3, 2021, the day it received Royal Assent.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The bill does not specify any particular activities or recognition events that must or must not occur during Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week Act, 2021
proclamation

Establishes the third full week of March each year as Front-line and Essential Service Worker Week.

Source: Section 1

This Act
commencement

The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Source: Section 2

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
Nov 16, 2020
Step 2
Second reading
May 10, 2021
Step 3
Committee review
May 6, 2021
Step 4
Third reading
Jun 2, 2021
Step 5
Royal assent
Jun 3, 2021

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
Kaleed Rasheed
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