Alberta bills

This Alberta bill amends the Education Act to restrict ideological and political content in classrooms, increase provincial and ministerial oversight over school boards, and introduce new requirements around flags, the national anthem, superintendent contracts, and school naming.

This bill creates a legal definition and designation system for 'Alberta Whisky,' requiring that the spirit be fully produced in Alberta using at least two-thirds Alberta-grown grain and Alberta water, and establishes the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission as the oversight body for compliance and enforcement.

This Alberta bill amends four justice-related statutes to tighten rules around citizen initiatives and recall petitions, introduce prohibitions on AI-generated deepfakes in political advertising, update public sector salary disclosure thresholds, and clarify electronic media advertising requirements.

This bill significantly updates Alberta's Animal Protection Act by expanding the definition of animal distress, strengthening enforcement powers for peace officers, replacing humane societies with a broader 'peace officer agency' framework, introducing prohibition orders that can ban people from owning animals, and increasing maximum fines from $20,000 to $250,000.

This Alberta bill requires that goods and services approved in any Canadian province or territory be automatically recognized as meeting Alberta's standards, removing the need for duplicate approvals or testing. It also entitles service providers licensed in another Canadian jurisdiction to receive equivalent authorization in Alberta without having to re-qualify.

This Alberta bill authorizes the provincial government to draw additional funds from the General Revenue Fund to cover unplanned expenses across various public service departments for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, totalling approximately $564 million in new appropriations plus several hundred million in internal budget transfers between departments.

This bill authorizes the Alberta government to spend approximately $70.9 billion from the General Revenue Fund to cover the operating expenses, capital investments, and financial transactions of provincial ministries and the Legislative Assembly for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027.

This Alberta bill establishes additional provincial rules and safeguards governing medical assistance in dying (MAID), including stricter eligibility requirements such as a 12-month foreseeable death window, mandatory family witness provisions, and restrictions on where and how MAID can be provided or discussed within health care facilities.

This Alberta bill makes a package of fiscal and regulatory changes across several provincial laws, including raising the tourism levy on accommodation from 4% to 6%, adjusting personal income tax caregiver credits, reforming data centre electricity levy calculations, updating credit union oversight rules, and modernizing employment pension plan provisions.

This Alberta bill creates a formal framework for destination marketing fees charged on accommodation and tourism experiences, establishing a system of designated organizations, trustees, and oversight rules. It also adds price transparency requirements to the Consumer Protection Act, requiring accommodation providers to disclose all mandatory fees at the time of booking.

This Alberta bill facilitates the transfer of Crown employees to a new independent agency police service, establishing the legal framework for moving staff, preserving their employment continuity and collective agreements, and expanding delegation authority under the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act to include the new agency.

This Alberta bill makes a wide range of amendments to several justice-related statutes, including overhauling the citizen initiative petition process (adding a new 'notice of intent' step and ministerial oversight), updating rules for political party registration and election finances, reforming the Legal Profession Act's disciplinary appeal structure, and adjusting terms and continuation rules for justices of the peace.

This Alberta bill restricts what professional regulatory bodies (like the Law Society, College of Physicians, teaching regulators, and dozens of others) can do to their members: they cannot sanction professionals for speech or expression made outside their professional practice, cannot require training on topics like diversity, equity and inclusion or unconscious bias, and must remain neutral on ideological principles such as those associated with DEI frameworks.

This Alberta bill makes a wide range of amendments to multiple provincial financial and regulatory statutes, including introducing a new levy (tax) on large data centres, restructuring the AISH disability assistance program into a new Alberta Disability Assistance Program, expanding Public Trustee powers, updating the general anti-avoidance rule for personal income tax, granting AIMCo and the Crown immunity from certain investment-related claims, and making technical corrections to pension, securities, and tobacco tax legislation.

This Alberta bill overhauls the province's health statutes by restructuring the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act into multiple parts, creating a new framework for physician participation in the provincial health plan (replacing the old 'opted in/opted out' system with 'participating,' 'flexibly participating,' and 'non-participating' categories), establishing a new Insured Hospital Services Plan, modernizing health information and privacy rules, and updating enforcement tools including significantly higher fines and new administrative penalties across several health Acts.

This Alberta bill amends six existing provincial laws to reduce administrative burden by streamlining registration processes for professionals, expanding how driver's licences and ID cards can be used, clarifying rules for diversified livestock farms (including a new 'harvest preserve' category), and updating the All-season Resorts Act to allow mixed public/private land developments.

This Alberta bill invokes the notwithstanding clause to shield three existing laws — covering school policies on gender and parental rights, fairness in sport (transgender athlete eligibility), and restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors — from challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Alberta Bill of Rights, and the Alberta Human Rights Act.

This Alberta bill amends several utilities statutes to create new rules for data centres connecting to the electricity grid, update how the restructured energy market (REM) operates, and refine regulations around hydrogen-blended natural gas pilot projects and cost recovery.

This bill amends Alberta's Water Act to expand water management rules, including new definitions for 'water for reuse' and updated basin boundaries, new disclosure requirements for water assignment and transfer agreements, streamlined licence amendment processes, and stronger monitoring and reporting obligations for water users.

This Alberta bill adds a new division to the Education Act requiring school boards, independent schools, and early childhood services providers to conduct literacy and numeracy screening assessments for children from kindergarten through Grade 3, and to report the results to parents and the Minister of Education.