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Bill 15, Fairness for Road Users Act (Contraventions Causing Death or Serious Bodily Harm), 2023

French, Jennifer K.

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The

Bill amends the Highway Traffic Act . If a person

causes or contributes to causing an accident which causes death or serious

bodily harm, and at the time the person was contravening the Highway Traffic Act or its regulations, then the person

is guilty of an offence. The court may sentence the person to a fine of up to

$50,000, or to imprisonment for up to two years, or to both. The court may also

suspend the person’s driver’s licence or permit.

Bill 15 2022

Act to amend the Highway Traffic Act to create an offence of contravention

causing death or serious bodily harm

Her

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

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

The Highway Traffic Act is amended by adding the

following Part:

PART X.0.1

CONTRAVENTIONS CAUSING DEATH OR SERIOUS BODILY HARM

Contraventions

causing death or serious bodily harm

191.0.2 Every person who, while

contravening this Act or the regulations, causes, or contributes to causing, an

accident that causes the death of a person or serious bodily harm to a person

is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than

$2,000 and not more than $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than

two years, or to both, and in addition the person’s driver’s licence or permit

may be suspended for a period of not more than five years.

Commencement

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

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Fairness for Road Users

Act (Contraventions Causing Death or Serious Bodily Harm), 2022 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

July 12, 2023

Second Reading

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy

November 22, 2022

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy

November 22, 2022

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

November 22, 2022

Second Reading

Question put

November 22, 2022

Second Reading

Debated

August 30, 2022

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

August 30, 2022

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

August 30, 2022

Carried

Second Reading

November 22, 2022

French, Jennifer

Oshawa

Gates, Wayne

Niagara Falls

Grewal, Hardeep

Brampton East

Harden, Joel

Ottawa Centre

Schreiner, Mike

Guelph

Carried

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy

July 12, 2023

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy