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Bill 79, Right to Timely Mental Health and Addiction Care for Children and Youth Act, 2021

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill enacts the Right to Timely Mental Health and

Addiction Care for Children and Youth Act, 2021 .

The

Act requires the Minister to ensure that a person who is less than 26 years

old, resides in Ontario and has been deemed to require a mental health or

addiction service receives access to the required mental health or addiction

service within 30 days of being deemed to require the service.

Bill 79 2021

Act to enact the Right to Timely Mental Health and Addiction Care for Children

and Youth Act, 2021

Preamble

Children

and youth across Ontario experience mental health and addiction issues that

impact their lives and the lives of those around them. Prioritizing child and

youth mental health and addiction services is the right and fiscally

responsible thing to do.

Early

interventions are more effective in addressing health issues. Guaranteeing

access to mental health and addiction services within 30 days will provide

children and youth the support they need in a timely manner and will enable

them to grow and to live their lives to the fullest.

Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Wait

times for mental health services

(1) The

Minister shall ensure that a person described in subsection (2) shall be

provided with access to a required mental health or addiction service within 30

days after being deemed by a mental health service provider as requiring that

service.

Application

(2) Subsection

(1) applies to a person who,

(

a) is

less than 26 years old;

(

b) resides

in Ontario; and

(

c) has

been deemed to require a mental health or addiction service by a mental health

service provider.

Definition

(3) In

this section,

“Minister”

means the Minister of Health or such other member of the Executive Council as

may be assigned the administration of this Act under the Executive

Council Act .

Regulations

The

Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations,

(

a) defining,

for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, any word or expression used

in this Act that has not already been expressly defined in this Act;

(

b) prescribing

the mental health and addiction services that are required in prescribed

circumstances;

(

c) establishing

a system to monitor compliance with this Act and the regulations.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Right to Timely Mental

Health and Addiction Care for Children and Youth Act, 2021 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

December 9, 2021

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 9, 2021

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

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