British Columbia bills

This British Columbia law requires the Minister of Health to develop a comprehensive health screening plan for firefighters within 12 months of Royal Assent, and to review the Workers Compensation Act's occupational disease presumptions for firefighters within the same period.

This is British Columbia's main Supply Act for the 2026–2027 fiscal year, authorizing the provincial government to spend approximately $84.4 billion on public services and $1.45 billion on capital expenditures, loans, and investments up to March 31, 2027.

This Act ratifies and gives legal force to the Kitselas Treaty between the Kitselas First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia, transferring land ownership to Kitselas, establishing governance rights, and adjusting forestry, agricultural, tax, and hospital district arrangements affecting Kitselas Lands.

This Act gives legal force to the K'ómoks Treaty, a negotiated agreement between the K'ómoks First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia that establishes K'ómoks land ownership, self-government rights, resource harvesting rights, and taxation arrangements on Vancouver Island near the Comox Valley.

This British Columbia bill gives elected municipal council members, regional district board members, Island Trust trustees, and Vancouver Park Board members the right to take up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave when they have or adopt a child, without losing their seat or their pay and benefits.

This BC bill establishes a standardized, province-wide code of conduct and formal complaint process for elected officials (council members, regional district directors, trustees, and park board members) across British Columbia municipalities, regional districts, and other local governments. It sets out how complaints about elected officials can be filed, investigated, and resolved — including possible sanctions like suspensions, pay reductions, or letters of reprimand.

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 BC bill amends the Environmental Assessment Act to establish formal issue resolution protocols and dispute resolution processes between the provincial environmental assessment office and participating Indigenous nations, while explicitly excluding US-recognized tribes from participation in BC's environmental assessment process.

This BC bill amends the Forest Act and Forest and Range Practices Act to create a new 'contract logging authorization' allowing timber sales managers to authorize contractors hired by BC Timber Sales (BCTS) to harvest Crown timber, and updates related planning, funding, and compliance rules to incorporate these authorizations alongside existing timber sale licences.

This British Columbia law creates protected 'access zones' around places of public worship, prohibiting anyone from blocking entry, disrupting services, harassing worshippers, or attempting to intimidate people within those zones. It allows police to arrest violators without a warrant and courts to issue injunctions, and it automatically expires four years after coming into force.

This BC bill extends the expiry date of the Safe Access to Schools Act by two years, pushing a sunset clause from July 1, 2026 to July 1, 2028, keeping the existing school access restrictions in place longer.

This British Columbia bill amends the Residential Tenancy Act to create a new legal framework for supportive housing, giving the provincial government broad regulation-making powers over tenancy rules for supportive housing rental units serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. It also updates provisions around cause-for-eviction related to disturbances, illegal activity, and weapons possession on residential properties.

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 appealed, including adding a formal complaint resolution process and requiring employers to post a financial deposit when appealing a monetary determination.

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 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 bill creates a formal designation and regulatory framework for post-secondary institutions that enroll international students, replacing the previous Education Quality Assurance (EQA) designation system with a new statutory regime requiring institutions to obtain designation certificates before they can recruit, advertise to, or enroll international students.

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.

British Columbia's Trade Recognition Act requires BC to recognize goods and services that are legally sold or supplied in any other Canadian province, effectively removing BC-specific regulatory barriers to interprovincial trade in goods and services.

This bill authorizes the British Columbia government to spend approximately $23.4 billion from the consolidated revenue fund to keep provincial public services funded for the first portion of the 2026–27 fiscal year, acting as a temporary spending authority until the full provincial budget is passed.

This British Columbia bill establishes a $400 million 'BC Strategic Investments' special account that allows the provincial government to provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, and equity investments to eligible recipients for prescribed strategic investment projects in the province.