Bill 300 explained in plain English
Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Amendment Act, 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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The Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Amendment Act, 2021, modifies rules for authorizing educational institutions and mandates the public release of related applications and recommendations.
This bill, the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Amendment Act, 2021, amends existing legislation regarding post-secondary education in Ontario. It introduces a restriction on members of the Executive Council, preventing them from including provisions in bills that would authorize educational institutions to perform certain actions, unless specific conditions are met. These conditions include a review of the institution's application by the Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board and a waiting period after the Board publishes its recommendations. The bill also requires the Board to publish applications and its recommendations online, subject to potential limitations. Additionally, it repeals certain amendments to another act that were not yet in force.
- Amends the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000.
- Adds a new section (3.1) to restrict members of the Executive Council from introducing bills that authorize educational institutions to perform certain actions, unless specific review and waiting periods have passed.
- Amends section 7 of the Act to require the Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board to publish applications referred by the Minister and its recommendations to the Minister on its website.
- Amends clause 13 (1) (f) of the Act to allow for regulations prescribing limitations on the publishing of applications.
- Repeals sections 1 to 5 of Schedule 2 to the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2020, which introduced amendments to the Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies Act, 1999 that were not yet in force.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Members of the Executive Council
- Educational institutions seeking authorization
- The Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board
- The Minister of Education (implied)
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (implied)
- Members of the Executive Council are prohibited from including provisions in bills that authorize educational institutions unless the Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board has reviewed the application and at least 30 days have passed since the Board published its recommendations (Section 3.1).
- The Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board is required to publish on its website each application referred by the Minister and any recommendations it makes to the Minister, subject to prescribed limitations (Section 7, subsections 8 and 9).
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council can prescribe limitations regarding the publishing of applications (Clause 13 (1) (f)).
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent (Section 5).
- The specific 'things described in section 2 or 3' of the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000 that an educational institution may be authorized to do are not detailed in this bill text.
- The 'prescribed limitations' mentioned in relation to the publication of applications are not detailed in the bill text and would likely be set out in regulations.
New restrictions are added to prevent members of the Executive Council from introducing bills that authorize educational institutions unless certain review and waiting periods have passed. Requirements for the Post-secondary Education Quality Assessment Board to publish applications and recommendations are added, and the ability to prescribe limitations on publishing applications is included.
Source: Section 1, Section 7, Clause 13 (1) (f)
Specific amendments made by Schedule 2 to the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2020, are repealed.
Source: Section 4
Sections 1 to 5 of Schedule 2 to this Act are repealed, effectively removing their amendments to the Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies Act, 1999.
Source: Section 4
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