Bill 59 explained in plain English
Making Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Available 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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The Making Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Available Act, 2022, mandates that the Ontario Minister of Health must direct public hospitals to maintain a minimum of 10 sexual assault evidence kits.
This Act requires the Ontario Minister of Health to direct all public hospitals in Ontario to keep at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available at all times. The Act specifies that a public hospital is a hospital as defined by the Public Hospitals Act. The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Requires the Minister of Health to direct every public hospital to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available at all times.
- Defines a public hospital as a hospital within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister of Health
- Public hospitals in Ontario
- Patients seeking sexual assault evidence kits
- The Minister of Health has a duty to direct public hospitals.
- Public hospitals must ensure at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits are available at all times.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific process or mechanism by which the Minister of Health will issue the directive is not detailed in the bill.
- The bill does not specify any consequences or penalties for public hospitals that do not comply with the directive.
Provides a definition for 'public hospital' within the context of this new Act.
Source: Section 1(2)
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