Bill 108 explained in plain English
Access to Sexual Assault Evidence Kits and Provision of Sexual Assault Education Act, 2022
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This bill, if passed, would mandate that hospitals maintain a stock of sexual assault evidence kits and offer free training on their use to nursing students.
This bill, if passed, would require Ontario hospitals to keep at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits on hand and provide them to patients for free. It would also require institutions that grant nursing degrees to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training to nursing students at no cost, or risk having their consent from the Minister invalidated. The bill also allows for the definition of 'sexual assault evidence kit' to be clarified.
- Requires hospitals to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available for patients at all times.
- Requires hospitals to provide sexual assault evidence kits to any patient in need, free of charge.
- Amends the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000 to require institutions granting nursing degrees to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training to nursing students free of charge.
- States that if an institution granting nursing degrees fails to provide this training, the Minister's consent under that Act is considered invalid.
- Amends the Public Hospitals Act to add a section regarding sexual assault evidence kits.
- Amends subsection 32 (1) of an Act to allow for defining or clarifying the meaning of 'sexual assault evidence kit'.
- Hospitals
- Patients in need of sexual assault evidence kits
- Institutions that grant nursing degrees
- Nursing students
- The Minister (in relation to consent for nursing degree granting institutions)
- Hospitals have an obligation to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available at all times.
- Hospitals have an obligation to provide sexual assault evidence kits to patients in need, free of charge.
- Institutions granting nursing degrees have an obligation to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training free of charge to nursing students.
- Patients have the right to receive sexual assault evidence kits free of charge.
- Nursing students have the right to receive Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training free of charge.
- The Act comes into force one year after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- If an institution granting nursing degrees fails to offer the required training, the Minister's consent under the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000 is deemed not to be valid.
- The bill text does not specify the exact content or duration of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training.
- The bill does not detail the process by which the Minister's consent would be invalidated or what steps would follow.
- The bill allows for the definition of 'sexual assault evidence kit' to be defined or clarified, but does not provide that definition within the text itself.
Requires hospitals to maintain a minimum stock of 10 sexual assault evidence kits and provide them to patients free of charge. It also allows for the definition of 'sexual assault evidence kit' to be clarified.
Source: Section 2
Requires institutions that grant nursing degrees to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training to nursing students at no cost. Failure to do so will result in the Minister's consent being considered invalid.
Source: Section 1
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