Newfoundland and Labrador bills

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Liquor Control Act to allow out-of-province alcoholic beverage producers (brewers, distillers, wineries) from jurisdictions that have signed a direct-to-consumer agreement with the province to apply for authorization to ship their products directly to individuals in Newfoundland and Labrador for personal consumption.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Pharmaceutical Services Act to clarify when pharmacists and dispensing physicians can fill controlled drug prescriptions received by phone or transferred from another pharmacist, and removes the requirement to use tamper-resistant prescription pads in certain specific situations.

This bill corrects typographical errors, outdated cross-references, and minor drafting mistakes across dozens of Newfoundland and Labrador statutes and regulations, and repeals a large number of obsolete or spent Acts, proclamations, and orders.

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 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 bill authorizes the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government to borrow up to $3.9 billion to cover shortfalls between provincial revenues and expenditures, replacing the borrowing authority under the previous Loan Act, 2025.

This is Newfoundland and Labrador's main Supply Act for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, authorizing the provincial government to withdraw up to $7.28 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (on top of $3.99 billion already authorized under the Interim Supply Act) to fund public services from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Forestry Act to expand forest fire prevention rules, update licence suspension powers for mill operators, modernize notice requirements, and shift penalty amounts from fixed statutory fines to regulation-set amounts across a broader range of provincial lands.

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

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, retroactive to January 1, 2019.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Future Fund Act to change how money flows into and out of the provincial Future Fund, tightening deposit rules around Crown asset sales and surplus cash positions, and restricting withdrawals almost exclusively to debt repayment and specific decommissioning costs.

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 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 Pension Benefits Act, 1997 to define 'solvency assets' and 'solvency ratio,' and to allow pension plan assets to be transferred to out-of-province pension plans that are not registered locally, provided certain financial health and jurisdictional conditions are met.

This bill amends Newfoundland and Labrador's Revenue Administration Act to make permanent a 7-cent-per-litre tax reduction on common grades of gasoline (primarily regular and premium pump fuel), while also setting out the tax rates for propane, marine fuel, diesel, and aviation fuel.

This bill removes the sugar sweetened beverage tax from Newfoundland and Labrador's Revenue Administration Act, eliminating the levy on sugary drinks by repealing all related definitions, provisions, and regulations.

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

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.

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.