British Columbia bills

This British Columbia bill requires the Minister of Health to develop a comprehensive health screening plan for firefighters within 12 months, including cancer screening, physical and mental health assessments, and exposure data collection. It also mandates a review of workers' compensation presumptive disease provisions for firefighters to potentially expand recognized occupational diseases and adjust eligibility criteria.

This bill authorizes the British Columbia provincial government to spend approximately $84.4 billion on public services and $1.45 billion on capital expenditures, loans, and investments for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027.

This bill enacts the Kitselas Treaty Act in British Columbia, giving legal effect to the Kitselas Treaty negotiated between the Kitselas First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia. It transfers land ownership, establishes the treaty's legal supremacy over conflicting provincial law, cancels existing forestry tenures on treaty lands, and provides for tax treatment agreements and related governance matters.

This Act gives legal force to the K'ómoks Treaty, a negotiated agreement between the K'ómoks First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia that establishes K'ómoks land ownership, self-government rights, resource harvesting rights, and taxation arrangements on Vancouver Island near the Comox Valley.

This British Columbia bill establishes a standardized, provincially regulated code of conduct for municipal council members, regional district directors, Islands Trust trustees, and Vancouver City Council members, replacing locally created codes of conduct with a uniform framework that includes formal complaint filing, independent investigation, mutual resolution processes, and defined sanctions.

This British Columbia omnibus bill makes amendments across multiple statutes, including establishing cabinet confidence protections in judicial review, enabling cost-recovery fees under the Fuel Price Transparency Act, reducing the zero-emission vehicle sales target from 100% to 75%, expanding development charge exemption categories, broadening tenancy dispute resolution evidence rules, enhancing bylaw enforcement on University Endowment Lands, and reforming correctional facility oversight.

This bill amends British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Act to create formal issue resolution and dispute resolution processes between Indigenous nations and the environmental assessment office, while excluding United States tribes from participating as Indigenous nations in BC environmental assessments.

This British Columbia bill amends the Forest Act and the Forest and Range Practices Act to create a new 'contract logging authorization' that allows BC Timber Sales (BCTS) to directly contract logging operators to harvest Crown timber, and enables timber sale licences and forestry licences to cut to include more stringent terms, conditions, and third-party certification standards.

This British Columbia bill creates protected 'access zones' around places of public worship, prohibiting interference with access, disruption of activities, intimidation, and attempts to dissuade people from attending worship. It allows warrantless arrest for violations and includes a 4-year sunset clause.

This bill amends the Safe Access to Schools Act by extending the sunset date of certain provisions from July 1, 2026 to July 1, 2028, ensuring that access zone protections around schools remain in effect for an additional two years.

This British Columbia bill amends the Residential Tenancy Act to create a new legal framework for supportive housing, giving the provincial government broad regulation-making powers over tenancy rules for supportive housing rental units serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. It also updates provisions around cause-for-eviction related to disturbances, illegal activity, and weapons possession on residential properties.

This British Columbia bill amends the Employment Standards Act and the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act to overhaul how workplace complaints are reviewed, investigated, and resolved, and requires employers to deposit the full amount of a monetary determination (or a tribunal-approved lesser amount) before they can appeal it.

This bill amends British Columbia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to update rules around FOI requests, introduce a 'connected services provider' framework for sharing personal information between public bodies, and strengthen the Privacy Commissioner's oversight and information-sharing powers.

This bill amends British Columbia's Civil Forfeiture Act to streamline the government's ability to seize property connected to unlawful activity. It introduces default judgment procedures, requires more detailed responses from property claimants, extends certain dispute time periods from 30 to 60 days, enables inter-jurisdictional information sharing, and creates a legal presumption that seized motor vehicles depreciate in value.

This British Columbia bill creates a formal designation and regulatory framework for post-secondary institutions that enroll international students, replacing the previous Education Quality Assurance (EQA) designation system with a new statutory regime requiring institutions to obtain designation certificates before they can recruit, advertise to, or enroll international students.

This British Columbia bill amends the Motor Vehicle Act to modernize driver's licence application and renewal processes, allowing online applications through digital platforms instead of requiring in-person visits, and updating requirements around signatures, photos, email address notifications, and electronic/interim licences.

This British Columbia bill establishes that any good legally sold or used in another Canadian province can be sold or used in BC, and any service legally supplied in another province can be supplied in BC, effectively removing provincial trade barriers for interprovincial commerce.

This is a British Columbia interim supply bill that authorizes the provincial government to spend approximately $23.4 billion from the consolidated revenue fund to cover public service expenses, capital expenditures, loans, investments, and revenue transfers for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, pending full passage of the main budget estimates.

This British Columbia bill establishes a $400 million 'BC Strategic Investments' special account that allows the provincial government to provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, and equity investments to eligible recipients for prescribed strategic investment projects in the province.

British Columbia's 2026 budget implementation bill enacts wide-ranging tax and fiscal changes, including expanding provincial sales tax (PST) to cover accounting, architectural, engineering, commercial real estate, and security services; creating a new manufacturing and processing investment tax credit; increasing personal income tax rates; raising the speculation and vacancy tax; eliminating the northern/rural home owner grant distinction; and making various administrative and governance changes.