Newfoundland and Labrador bills

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Liquor Control Act to allow residents to purchase alcohol directly from licensed producers in other provinces or jurisdictions that have signed a reciprocal agreement with the province, with those out-of-province producers required to register, pay mark-ups, and file sales returns.

This is Newfoundland and Labrador's main Supply Act for fiscal year 2026-2027, authorizing the provincial government to draw up to $7.28 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to fund public services from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, bringing total authorized spending for the year to approximately $11.27 billion when combined with the earlier Interim Supply Act.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Forestry Act to expand fire safety rules and enforcement powers across more land types, update licensing and permit systems for mills and burning activities, modernize how notices are published, and move fines for forest fire offences into regulations rather than the Act itself.

This bill authorizes the Newfoundland and Labrador government to draw up to approximately $3.99 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cover provincial public service expenses for the 2026-27 fiscal year (April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027) on an interim basis while the full provincial budget is finalized.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Pension Benefits Act, 1997 to define 'solvency assets' and 'solvency ratio,' and to allow pension plan assets to be transferred to pension plans registered in other Canadian jurisdictions under specific financial health conditions.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Pharmaceutical Services Act to clarify and reduce tamper-resistant prescription pad requirements for controlled drugs in specific situations, including telephone prescriptions, inter-pharmacy transfers, direct prescriber-to-pharmacy transmissions, and therapeutic substitutions.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Student Financial Assistance Act, 2019 to replace the Student Financial Assistance Appeal Board with a two-stage internal appeals process (appeals officer, then director), and gives the minister new powers to file certificates of judgment at the Supreme Court to collect defaulted provincial student loans.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Endangered Species Act to increase fines for violations, strengthen conservation officer enforcement powers (including telewarrants), clarify seizure and forfeiture rules, extend government response timelines for species status recommendations, and update language throughout the Act.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Revenue Administration Act to maintain a 7-cent-per-litre reduction on the provincial gasoline tax for most grades of gasoline, locking in specific tax rates across fuel types including propane, diesel, marine, aviation, and regular gasoline.

This Newfoundland and Labrador bill amends the provincial Income Tax Act to raise the basic personal amount, double the tax credits for volunteer firefighters and search and rescue volunteers, and gradually reduce the small business corporate income tax rate from 2.5% down to 1% over three years.

This Newfoundland and Labrador bill amends the Future Fund Act to change when money goes into and can be taken out of the provincial Future Fund, tying deposits to Crown asset sales and surplus cash positions, and limiting withdrawals strictly to paying down public debt and certain liabilities.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Wild Life Act to update definitions (including adding coyotes as fur-bearing animals), increase fines for wildlife offences, clarify search and seizure powers for wildlife officers, allow telewarrants, add a 3-year limitation period for prosecutions, and make various technical corrections.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Income Tax Act, 2000 to extend the Child Benefit after a child's death, improve transferability of manufacturing/processing and green technology tax credits during corporate amalgamations and wind-ups, clarify credit limits for associated or short-year corporations, and make the film/video tax credit fully refundable.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's workers' compensation legislation to define 'temporary earnings loss benefits' and update how retirement lump-sum payments are calculated for injured workers who reach age 65, with retroactive effect to January 1, 2019.

This bill modernizes Newfoundland and Labrador's Children's Law Act and Family Law Act by replacing outdated 'custody and access' terminology with new concepts of 'decision-making responsibility,' 'parenting time,' and 'contact,' while also strengthening best-interests-of-the-child protections, codifying family violence considerations, introducing formal relocation notice requirements, and updating language to be gender-neutral throughout both Acts.

This bill establishes the Office of the Disability Advocate in Newfoundland and Labrador, creating an independent officer of the House of Assembly to investigate complaints, advocate for persons with disabilities, and make recommendations to government departments, agencies, and service providers regarding disability services.

This bill corrects technical errors, typos, and outdated cross-references across dozens of Newfoundland and Labrador statutes and regulations, and repeals a large number of obsolete or spent acts, proclamations, and orders. It makes no changes to policy.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Revenue Administration Act to eliminate the sugar-sweetened beverage tax entirely, repealing the relevant tax provisions, definitions, and regulation-making authority.

This bill repeals Newfoundland and Labrador's existing Seniors Advocate Act and replaces it with the Seniors' Advocate Act, 2026, modernizing the framework for the Office of the Seniors' Advocate and expanding the Advocate's investigative powers, including the ability to act without a senior's consent in certain circumstances.