Bill 60 explained in plain English
Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 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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Bill 60 amends Ontario's Health Insurance Act and Health Protection and Promotion Act to include services for gun violence survivors and to mandate programs for reducing gun violence.
This bill makes changes to two Ontario laws: the Health Insurance Act and the Health Protection and Promotion Act. The changes aim to address gun violence and its impacts. Under the Health Insurance Act, certain violence intervention programs and trauma-informed counselling for survivors and affected family members will be covered services. Under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, public health boards will be required to have programs and services focused on reducing gun violence and supporting survivors and those affected by gun violence.
- Amends the Health Insurance Act to include specific violence intervention programs and trauma-informed counselling for survivors of gun violence and their families as covered services.
- Amends the Health Protection and Promotion Act to require boards of health to establish programs and services aimed at reducing gun violence and supporting individuals affected by it.
- Sets the commencement date of the Act to six months after it receives Royal Assent.
- Survivors of gun violence
- Family members and observers impacted by gun violence
- Providers of violence intervention programs
- Practitioners providing trauma-informed counselling
- Boards of health
- The right to access trauma-informed counselling for survivors of gun violence and affected family members and observers, without any time limit on accessing the counselling.
- Obligation for boards of health to have programs and services for reducing gun violence.
- Obligation for boards of health to have programs and services for increasing community capacity to support survivors of gun violence and those with trauma related to gun violence.
- The Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Health Insurance Act amendments refer to 'prescribed' programs, counselling, practitioners, conditions, and limitations, but these specifics are not detailed within this bill text.
- The Health Protection and Promotion Act amendments refer to 'programs and services' that boards of health shall have, but the specific nature and scope of these are not detailed within this bill text.
Adds provisions to cover prescribed hospital-based and community-based violence intervention programs, and prescribed trauma-informed counselling for survivors of gun violence and their families, under certain conditions.
Source: Section 1
Adds provisions requiring boards of health to implement programs and services for the reduction of gun violence and for increasing community capacity to support survivors of gun violence and those with trauma related to gun violence.
Source: Section 2
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