Bill 292 explained in plain English
Highway Memorials for Fallen Police Officers Amendment Act (In Memory of Officers Impacted by Traumatic Events), 2021
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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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.
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This bill amends the Highway Memorials for Fallen Police Officers Act to allow memorial naming of King's Highway structures for officers who died in the line of duty or died by suicide as a consequence of duty.
This bill amends the Highway Memorials for Fallen Police Officers Act, 2002. It adds a statement to the Act's preamble recognizing the impact of police work on mental health. It also changes the conditions under which bridges and structures on the King's Highway can be named in memory of police officers. Specifically, it allows for naming these structures in memory of officers who have died in the line of duty or who have taken their own lives as a result of their line of duty. The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Adds a statement to the preamble of the Highway Memorials for Fallen Police Officers Act, 2002, recognizing the impact of police work on mental health.
- Amends the Highway Memorials for Fallen Police Officers Act, 2002, to allow the Legislative Assembly to name bridges and other structures on the King's Highway in memory of police officers who have taken their own lives as a consequence of being in the line of duty.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Police officers in Ontario
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The public
- The Legislative Assembly has the power to name bridges and other structures on the King's Highway in memory of police officers who have died in the line of duty or taken their own lives as a consequence of being in the line of duty.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific process or criteria the Legislative Assembly will use to pass resolutions for naming structures are not detailed in the bill.
- The exact definition of 'King's Highway' is not provided within this bill.
- The bill does not specify which bridges or structures may be considered for memorial naming.
Adds a statement to the preamble recognizing the impact of police work on mental health and expands the criteria for naming highway structures to include officers who have taken their own lives as a consequence of being in the line of duty.
Source: Section 1
A new paragraph is added to recognize the impact of being in the line of duty on the mental health and well-being of police officers.
Source: Section 1
The section is replaced to specify that the Legislative Assembly may, by resolution, name bridges and other structures on the King's Highway in memory of police officers who have died in the line of duty or have taken their own lives as a consequence of being in the line of duty.
Source: Section 2
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