Quebec bills

This Quebec bill formally establishes a new category of subsidized home-based childcare — the 'responsable d'un service de garde éducatif en communauté' (RSGE en communauté) — by integrating it into the Act respecting educational childcare services. It also enacts a new law implementing the 2007 Hague Convention on the international recovery of child support and other forms of family maintenance.

This Quebec bill (Bill 23) updates and strengthens the legal framework for protecting people whose mental state may pose a risk to themselves or others, expanding who can conduct psychiatric examinations (adding specialized nurse practitioners), creating a system of advance psychiatric directives, establishing coordinated intervention processes, and transferring jurisdiction over involuntary psychiatric holds from the Court of Quebec to the Tribunal administratif du Québec.

This Quebec bill requires the Minister Responsible for Housing to establish a parity committee at least every five years to make recommendations on the criteria and percentages used for setting or adjusting residential rents, with equal representation from landlords and tenants.

This Quebec bill requires the Minister of Finance and the chair of the Conseil du trésor to analyze and publicly report on the gender equality and diversity impacts of provincial budgetary measures, fiscal policies, and government expenditures using an intersectional lens.

This Quebec bill officially designates the third Friday in October as National Homelessness Awareness Day, aligning with the existing Nuit des sans-abris event held annually since 1989.

This Quebec bill establishes a national air quality strategy and requires the government to adopt a five-year action plan aimed at improving air quality standards, increasing monitoring, and reducing health impacts from air pollutants across all regions of Quebec.

This Quebec bill creates a formal framework for evaluating and potentially publicly funding complementary and integrative health approaches (such as acupuncture, chiropractic, physiotherapy, and similar practices) by establishing a new committee within INESSS, allowing these services to become insured under the Quebec Health Insurance Act, expanding research funding, and requiring financial support for university training programs in this field.

This Quebec bill (Bill 5) creates a fast-track authorization process for large-scale projects designated as national priorities, allowing the government to streamline and consolidate the permits and approvals normally required under multiple Quebec laws, while incorporating amendments to protect Indigenous rights, environmental standards, and public consultation requirements.

This Quebec bill gives every Member of the National Assembly (MNA) a formal legal right to visit a wide range of publicly funded institutions — from hospitals and schools to municipalities and Crown corporations — as part of their oversight role, and sets out the rules governing how those visits must be conducted.

This Quebec bill requires all public schools and private educational institutions to install CO2 sensors and air exchangers or purifiers in every classroom, sets a maximum CO2 concentration limit of 1,000 ppm (800 ppm during a WHO-declared pandemic), and establishes reporting and public disclosure obligations for air quality data and equipment inspections.

This Quebec bill restricts when the National Assembly can use the notwithstanding clause to override the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, limiting its use to situations of serious public peril or French/Indigenous language protection, and requires a two-thirds supermajority vote plus mandatory court opinions, ministerial reports, and public consultations before any override can pass.

This Quebec bill establishes a Free Access to Contraception Program covering a wide range of contraceptive methods at no cost to eligible individuals, and expands who can prescribe and dispense contraception — including midwives and pharmacists — while also mandating condom distribution in schools and integrating sexual health education into curricula.

This Quebec bill extends eligibility for the provincial health insurance plan (RAMQ) and basic prescription drug insurance to all pregnant women and persons living in Quebec, regardless of their immigration or migratory status, eliminating the usual waiting period and residency requirements during and shortly after pregnancy.

This Quebec bill tightens rent increase rules by requiring landlords to get the Administrative Housing Tribunal to set the rent whenever a proposed increase exceeds a set percentage threshold, and by reducing the exemption period for newly built or converted rental buildings from five years to three years.

This Quebec bill amends the Education Act to make special school projects (including concentration programs) free for Quebec residents up to $5,000 per year, and restricts school service centres from placing multiple buildings at a special-project school's disposal unless those buildings are within 250 metres of each other.

This Quebec bill requires employers in government-designated industries with 50 or more employees to establish joint parity committees focused on guiding their workplace toward an environmentally sustainable economy, with workers holding at least half the seats and the committee making recommendations on green jobs, carbon footprint reduction, employee retraining, and community engagement.

This Quebec bill aims to cut food waste in half by 2030 by requiring food processors, distributors, and retailers to actively try to donate or redirect their unsold food products to recognized organizations, with government oversight and penalties for non-compliance.

This Quebec bill establishes a framework to protect and promote seniors' autonomy, including rights to home-based care, affordable adapted housing, financial security, and protection from maltreatment. It creates a national strategy and requires the provincial government to adopt a five-year action plan to implement these goals.

Bill 204 is a private bill concerning the City of Gatineau, Quebec, adopted without amendment by the Commission de l'aménagement du territoire. The bill contains two articles that were adopted as presented, though the specific content of those articles is not detailed in this procedural record.

This bill amends the Act respecting the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to require the fund to pursue investments with sustainable social and environmental impacts as part of its core mission, and to report on those impacts annually to the Minister of Finance.