Alberta bills

This Alberta bill amends the Consumer Protection Act to give individuals the right to place a 'security alert' or 'credit freeze' on their credit file with credit reporting agencies, making it harder for fraudsters to open credit in someone else's name.

This Alberta bill tightens conflict of interest rules for Members of the Legislative Assembly and Premier's/Ministers' staff by expanding when a perceived conflict triggers disclosure and withdrawal obligations, and by overhauling the gift and benefit acceptance rules — replacing a flexible regulatory framework with stricter statutory limits, mandatory Ethics Commissioner approval for gifts over $100, and an outright ban on gifts from lobbyists or people with business before the Crown.

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 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 raises the minimum wage in steps from the current rate to $16/hour in December 2025, $17/hour in 2026, and $18/hour in 2027, then ties future increases to inflation. It also requires employers to pass tips and gratuities directly to workers and bans setting a lower minimum wage based on employee age or student status.

This Alberta bill amends several statutes governing municipal affairs and housing, including changes to how lodge accommodation funding works, expanded library inspection powers, new councillor accountability rules, requirements for municipalities to publish employee salaries, new rules for pit (gravel/aggregate) development approvals, and updates to property assessment and off-site levy rules.

This bill creates two new Alberta personal income tax credits for volunteer firefighters and search and rescue volunteers, allowing qualifying individuals to deduct an amount equal to the specified tax percentage multiplied by $3,000 from their provincial income tax, provided they complete at least 200 hours of eligible volunteer service in a taxation year.

This Alberta bill amends the Consumer Protection Act to introduce four affordability measures: banning suppliers from charging prices higher than advertised (with limited exceptions), requiring online cancellation mechanisms for internet subscription contracts, capping private ATM fees at $5 or 5% of the withdrawal amount, and prohibiting transfer fees on secondary ticket sales.

This Alberta bill creates a fast-track approval process for large capital projects, requiring regulators to make permitting decisions within 120 business days once a project is designated as 'qualified' by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Projects must generally exceed $250 million in capital spending and align with provincial economic and security priorities to qualify.

This bill amends the private Act incorporating Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta to expand the institution's degree-granting authority beyond divinity degrees to include baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees in approved programs, as well as diplomas and certificates.

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 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 law ends the October 2025 teachers' strike and lockout by legislating a new collective agreement between school boards and the Alberta Teachers' Association, based on a September 23, 2025 memorandum of agreement, covering the period September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028.

This Alberta bill amends over a dozen provincial statutes to streamline regulations, reduce administrative burdens, and modernize rules across a wide range of sectors — from land titles and tenancies to parks, irrigation, gaming, and professional governance.

This Alberta bill makes minor housekeeping amendments to nine different provincial statutes, correcting cross-references, clarifying language, and removing transitional provisions that are no longer needed.

This Alberta bill establishes February 13 as 'Fossil Fuel Recognition Day' and requires the provincial education curriculum to include age-appropriate instruction on the economic role and career opportunities in Alberta's primary industries — oil and gas, forestry, agriculture, and construction.

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 bill amends the 1891 incorporating ordinance of the Ranchmen's Club, a private members' club in Calgary, by removing the $75,000 cap on the club's borrowing authority and updating the title of its incorporating legislation.

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 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.