Bill 95 explained in plain English
Long-Term Care Homes Amendment (Till Death Do Us Part) 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 amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, to ensure spouses have the right to live together in a long-term care home.
This bill amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, to add a right for residents to live together with their spouse in a long-term care home. Specifically, it ensures that upon admission, a resident requiring care is not separated from their spouse and that suitable accommodation is provided for both to live together.
- Amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, by adding a new right to the Residents' Bill of Rights.
- Grants residents the right not to be separated from their spouse upon admission to a long-term care home.
- Ensures that appropriate accommodation is made available for both spouses to live together in the home.
- Residents of long-term care homes in Ontario
- Spouses of residents of long-term care homes in Ontario
- Operators and staff of long-term care homes in Ontario
- Residents have the right not to be separated from their spouse upon admission to a long-term care home.
- Appropriate accommodation must be made available for spouses to live together in a long-term care home.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify what constitutes 'appropriate accommodation'.
Adds a new right to the Residents' Bill of Rights, ensuring spouses can live together in a long-term care home.
Source: Section 1
Adds the right for residents not to be separated from their spouse and to have accommodation made available for both to live together.
Source: Section 3 (1), Paragraph 20.1
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