British Columbia bills

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 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 British Columbia bill designates certain drug categories — including mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, safer supply/harm reduction drugs, puberty-suppressing and gender-transition hormones, and SSRIs — as 'experimental drugs classes,' and prohibits practitioners from prescribing, dispensing, or administering them unless the drug's wholesaler has signed a risk management agreement that includes a patient compensation fund and government indemnification for health care costs.

This British Columbia bill amends the School Act to require all school boards to establish controlled access policies for school buildings during instructional hours, including securing exterior doors, designating monitored entry points, and requiring visitors to check in at the office before accessing the school.

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 repeals British Columbia's Speculation and Vacancy Tax Act, which imposed an annual tax on owners of vacant or underused residential properties in designated urban areas. The bill preserves the province's ability to collect and enforce any tax liabilities that arose before the repeal date.

This British Columbia bill requires advocacy organizations working on specific issues (2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous rights, environmental protection, harm reduction/homelessness/poverty) that receive $10,000 or more from government or foreign sources to publicly disclose their funding sources, amounts, and top compensation, and to display prominent funding notices on their websites and social media.

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 private member's bill proposes to repeal British Columbia's Health Professions and Occupations Act, which is the province's framework for regulating health professionals and their licensing, oversight, and disciplinary processes.

This British Columbia bill extends the deadline for making catastrophic injury insurance claims under the provincial vehicle insurance system and lowers the threshold for what qualifies as a catastrophic injury by reducing the number of amputations required from two to one.

This BC bill would cut provincial income tax by 50% for anyone under 40 years old, and separately requires the BC government to slash its total public spending by 50% within five years.

This British Columbia bill requires the provincial government to notify fee simple landowners when their property may be affected by Aboriginal title claims or negotiations, and to file notices in the land title office. It also mandates annual public reporting on all unresolved and resolved Aboriginal title claims affecting fee simple lands.

This British Columbia bill requires health authorities to submit monthly reports to the minister on long term care waitlists, hospice bed availability, and home support access, and requires the minister to publish these reports publicly and develop a plan to improve timely access to long term care.

This British Columbia bill repeals the Residential Tenancy Act, the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act, and the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act, effectively eliminating the Residential Tenancy Branch and shifting all landlord-tenant dispute resolution to Provincial Court.

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 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 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 creates a legal framework for small farms (under $750,000 annual gross revenue) and small farming cooperatives, adjusting Agricultural Land Reserve rules to allow more off-farm product processing, permit agri-tourism activities as protected farm uses, and limit agri-tourism accommodation, while requiring the minister to publish an annual food production report.

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 BC bill requires owners and operators of large commercial vehicles (over 11,793 kg gross vehicle weight) to install, maintain, and continuously operate dashboard cameras that meet specific technical standards, including 72-hour storage, 1080p resolution, and night vision capability.