Bill 21 explained in plain English
Fixing Long-Term Care Amendment Act (Till Death Do Us Part), 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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Bill 21, the Fixing Long-Term Care Amendment Act (Till Death Do Us Part), 2022, gives spouses the right to live together in a long-term care home.
This bill amends the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021. It adds a new right to the Residents' Bill of Rights. This new right states that residents admitted to a long-term care home have the right not to be separated from their spouse. Appropriate accommodation must be made available so that both spouses can live together in the home.
- Amends the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021.
- Adds a new right to the Residents' Bill of Rights.
- Ensures that spouses admitted to a long-term care home have the right to live together.
- Requires that appropriate accommodation be made available for spouses to live together in the home.
- States that this Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Spouses admitted to a long-term care home in Ontario.
- 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 them to live together.
Source: Subsection 3 (1) of the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021
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