Bill 20 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 43rd Parliament, 1st 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 Public Hospitals Act and the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000 to ensure hospitals have sexual assault evidence kits available and that nursing programs provide SANE training, with specific commencement provisions.
This bill, called the Access to Sexual Assault Evidence Kits and Provision of Sexual Assault Education Act, 2022, makes two main changes. First, it requires Ontario hospitals to keep at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available at all times and to provide them to patients who need them, free of charge. Second, it requires institutions that grant nursing degrees in Ontario to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training, free of charge, to all nursing students. If they do not provide this training, their consent from the Minister may be considered invalid. The bill also allows for the definition or clarification of what a "sexual assault evidence kit" means. The changes related to hospitals and nursing education will come into effect one year after the bill receives Royal Assent.
- Requires public hospitals in Ontario to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available at all times.
- Requires public hospitals to provide sexual assault evidence kits to patients in need, free of charge.
- Requires institutions that grant nursing degrees to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training to nursing students, free of charge.
- States that if nursing degree-granting institutions do not offer SANE training, their Minister's consent may be considered invalid.
- Includes a provision to define or clarify the meaning of "sexual assault evidence kit" in the relevant Act.
- Sets the commencement date for these changes to be one year after the bill receives Royal Assent.
- Public hospitals in Ontario
- Patients in need of sexual assault evidence kits
- Institutions in Ontario that grant nursing degrees
- Students enrolled in nursing programs in Ontario
- The Minister of Health (implied in relation to consent for nursing programs)
- Hospitals have an obligation to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available.
- 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 SANE training to nursing students, free of charge.
- Nursing students have the right to be offered SANE training free of charge.
- The Act comes into force one year after it receives Royal Assent.
- Sexual assault evidence kits must be provided free of charge to patients.
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training must be provided free of charge to nursing students.
- If an institution that grants nursing degrees fails to offer free SANE training, its consent from the Minister may be deemed not to be valid.
- The bill does not specify which Act will be amended to define or clarify the term "sexual assault evidence kit", only that subsection 32(1) of 'the Act' is amended.
- The bill does not specify the exact process or consequences if a hospital fails to meet the requirement of having 10 kits available or providing them, beyond the new section being added to the Public Hospitals Act.
Requires hospitals to maintain a stock of at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits and to provide them to patients free of charge.
Source: Section 2
Requires institutions that grant nursing degrees to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training to nursing students for free; failure to do so may render the Minister's consent invalid.
Source: Section 1
Adds a clause allowing for the definition or clarification of the term "sexual assault evidence kit".
Source: Section 2(2) which amends subsection 32 (1) of the Act
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