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Bill 20, Access to Sexual Assault Evidence Kits and Provision of Sexual Assault Education Act, 2022

Collard, Lucille

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The

Bill makes amendments with respect to sexual assault evidence kits and sexual

assault education.

The

Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000

is amended to require persons who grant degrees in nursing under that Act to

provide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training, free of charge, to nursing

students or have the Minister’s consent under that Act deemed not to be valid.

The

Public Hospitals Act is amended to require

hospitals to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available for

patients at all times and to provide them to patients who are in need of them,

free of charge.

Bill 20 2022

Act to amend two Acts with respect to sexual assault evidence kits at hospitals

and education about sexual assault in nursing programs

Her

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

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Post-secondary

Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000

Section 4 of the Post-secondary Education Choice and

Excellence Act, 2000 is amended by adding the following subsection:

Exception,

nursing programs

(7) The

Minister’s consent is deemed not to be valid if,

(

a) the

person who received the consent grants degrees in nursing; and

(

b) the

person fails to offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training courses to every

student enrolled in the nursing program, free of charge.

Public

Hospitals Act

(1) The Public Hospitals Act is amended

by adding the following section:

Sexual

assault evidence kits

(1) A

hospital shall have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available for

patients at all times.

Provision

(2) A

hospital shall provide sexual assault evidence kits to any patient who is in

need of them, free of charge.

(2) Subsection

32 (1) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause:

(w.1) defining

or clarifying the meaning of the term “sexual assault evidence kit”;

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day that is one year after the day this Act

receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Access to Sexual Assault Evidence Kits and Provision of Sexual

Assault Education Act, 2022 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

September 7, 2022

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

September 7, 2022

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

September 7, 2022

Carried