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Bill 60, Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2022

Hunter, Mitzie

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Health Insurance Act . Insured

services shall include prescribed hospital-based and community-based violence

intervention programs. They shall also include trauma-informed counselling for

survivors and others affected by gun violence.

The

Bill also amends the Health Protection and Promotion Act .

Boards of health shall have programs and services for reducing gun violence.

They shall also have programs and services for increasing the capacity of the

community to assist survivors and others affected by gun violence.

Bill 60 2021

Act to amend the Health Insurance Act and the Health Protection and Promotion

Act in respect of addressing gun violence and its impacts

Her

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

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Health

Insurance Act

Subsection 11.2 (1) of the Health Insurance Act is

amended by adding the following paragraph:

4. Prescribed

hospital-based and community-based violence intervention programs, and

prescribed trauma-informed counselling for survivors of gun violence and impacted

family members and observers, rendered by prescribed practitioners under such

conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, but without any time limit on

accessing the counselling.

Health

Protection and Promotion Act

Section 5 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act

is amended by adding the following paragraphs:

2.1 Reduction

of gun violence.

2.2 Increasing

the capacity of the community to enhance the well-being of survivors of gun

violence and of people with trauma associated with gun violence.

Commencement

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Short Title

Commencement

This Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Safe and Healthy

Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2021 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

March 9, 2022

First Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy

March 9, 2022

First Reading

Order for Second Reading discharged pursuant to Standing Order 77(

a) December 1, 2021

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 1, 2021

March 9, 2022

Order for Second Reading discharged. Referred to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy.

Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy.

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 60

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Health Insurance Act

Health Protection and Promotion Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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