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Bill 81 explained in plain English

Supply Act, 2019

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 81
Full title
Supply Act, 2019
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Mar 26, 2019

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
Mar 26, 2019
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Short Version

The Supply Act, 2019 authorizes government spending for the 2018-2019 fiscal year and repeals previous appropriation acts.

What It Means

Bill 81, also known as the Supply Act, 2019, authorizes the Ontario government to spend certain amounts of money for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. This includes funds for the public service's expenses and investments, as well as for the expenses of the Legislative Offices. The Act also repeals two previous appropriation acts and is itself repealed on April 1, 2020. It is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2018.

What This Bill Does
  • Authorizes expenditures from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for public service expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, up to a total of $140,671,385,700.
  • Authorizes investments for public service capital assets, loans, and other investments for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, up to a total of $5,099,476,500.
  • Authorizes expenditures for the Legislative Offices for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, up to a total of $294,249,200.
  • Allows expenditures to be incurred or recognized by any ministry responsible for the program or activity during the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
  • Repeals the Interim Appropriation for 2018-2019 Act, 2017.
  • Repeals the Supplementary Interim Appropriation for 2018-2019 Act, 2018.
  • Repeals this Act on April 1, 2020.
Who Is Affected
  • The Government of Ontario
  • Ontario Ministries
  • Legislative Offices
  • The Consolidated Revenue Fund
Important Dates
  • The Act is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 2018.
  • The Act is repealed on April 1, 2020.
Financial Or Tax Impacts
  • Authorizes expenditures totaling $140,671,385,700 for public service expenses.
  • Authorizes expenditures totaling $5,099,476,500 for public service investments.
  • Authorizes expenditures totaling $294,249,200 for Legislative Offices' expenses.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The bill does not specify how expenditures will be allocated among specific programs or projects within each ministry.
  • The bill refers to "votes and items of the estimates" without explicitly listing them within the Act itself.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Interim Appropriation for 2018-2019 Act, 2017
repeals

This Act is repealed.

Source: Section 5

Supplementary Interim Appropriation for 2018-2019 Act, 2018
repeals

This Act is repealed.

Source: Section 5

Supply Act, 2019
repeals itself

This Act will be repealed on April 1, 2020.

Source: Section 4

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
Mar 18, 2019
Step 2
Second reading
Mar 25, 2019
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Mar 25, 2019
Step 5
Royal assent
Mar 26, 2019

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
Peter Bethlenfalvy
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario | Pickering—Uxbridge
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