New Brunswick bills

This New Brunswick bill amends the Small Business Investor Tax Credit Act and the New Brunswick Income Tax Act to expand tax credit limits for investments in 'strategic sector' businesses, introduce convertible debentures as eligible investment instruments, and add new administrative enforcement mechanisms including penalties and a formal appeals process.

This New Brunswick bill amends the Liquor Control Act to allow small craft brewers (producing 500,000 litres or less per year) and small distillers (producing 75,000 litres or less per year) to sell their products directly at approved farmers' markets, while also removing the in-house brewery licence category and making various housekeeping and language updates throughout the Act.

This New Brunswick bill removes limitation periods for certain personal injury claims — specifically trespass, assault, or battery of a sexual nature, or where the victim was in an intimate relationship or was financially, emotionally, or physically dependent on the defendant. It also revives previously time-barred claims that were dismissed solely due to expired limitation periods.

This New Brunswick bill amends pension legislation to update rules around commuted value payments, unclaimed pension property, non-resident member withdrawals, and regulatory powers for pension administrators and financial institutions.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Securities Act to expand regulatory oversight of capital markets by introducing dispute resolution services, administrative penalty officers, information processors, and promotional activity rules, while also transferring several powers from the Commission to the Executive Director and increasing maximum fines.

This bill replaces New Brunswick's Mining Act with a new Mineral Resources Act, modernizing the legal framework for mineral prospecting, exploration, and mining in the province. It updates licensing and registration systems, adds protections for strategic mineral supply chains, and transfers appeals from the Energy and Utilities Board to a new dedicated appeal authority.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Midwifery Act to modernize the regulatory framework for midwives by creating a formal student midwife register, updating definitions and terminology, expanding the governing Council's composition, and clarifying scope-of-practice rules for different categories of registrants.

This bill overhauls New Brunswick's Lobbyists' Registration Act by consolidating registration requirements into a single framework, introducing monthly reporting obligations, establishing a code of conduct for lobbyists, and creating new enforcement tools including administrative penalties, lobbying prohibitions, and formal investigation powers for the Integrity Commissioner.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Employment Standards Act to create a new long-term illness and injury leave entitlement, allowing eligible employees to take up to 27 weeks of unpaid leave within any 52-week period due to illness or injury.

This New Brunswick bill restructures how the chief medical officer of health and regional medical officers of health are appointed and governed under the Public Health Act, establishing fixed terms, removal protections, a new deputy chief role, and requiring annual public health reporting starting in fiscal year 2026-2027.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Commissioners for Taking Affidavits Act to expand eligibility for appointment as a commissioner by allowing holders of a valid Canadian work permit (in addition to citizens and permanent residents) to serve in that role.

This bill replaces the 1994 incorporating Act for the New Brunswick Real Estate Association (NBREA), continuing it as the professional regulatory body for real estate trading in New Brunswick with updated governance, registration, discipline, and enforcement powers.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Local Governance Act to allow local governments to construct, own, or operate 'clean energy generation facilities' (replacing the broader term 'generation facility'), and to establish or invest in corporations for that purpose, with profits flowing back into municipal general funds.

This New Brunswick bill allows child and family services agencies to share client information with professional regulatory bodies (such as law societies or engineering associations) without the usual consent requirements, when those bodies are investigating one of their members.

This New Brunswick bill updates the Motor Vehicle Act to modernize vehicle registration procedures, allowing digital or printable registration certificates instead of only paper, eliminating the annual sticker requirement, and standardizing identification references to use both the vehicle identification number (VIN) and registration plate number throughout the Act.

This New Brunswick bill raises the threshold for simplified probate procedures from $3,000 to $25,000 for small estates, and allows the Public Trustee to release property held for a deceased person using an authentic copy of a will (rather than full probate) when the estate value is $25,000 or less.

This bill authorizes the New Brunswick provincial government to spend up to $14.54 billion from the Consolidated Fund to cover public service expenses for the fiscal year April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, as laid out in the Main and Capital Estimates.

This bill authorizes the New Brunswick provincial government to spend an additional $465 million from the Consolidated Fund for public services during the 2025-2026 fiscal year, covering departments such as Health, Social Development, and Natural Resources.

This New Brunswick bill amends the Health Quality and Patient Safety Act to strengthen oversight of patient safety incidents in health care organizations, requiring mandatory quality reviews for critical events, new reporting obligations, and the creation of a provincial advisory committee to oversee health care quality improvement.

This New Brunswick bill overhauls the rules for privately owned signs (billboards, placards, advertisements) displayed within 150 metres of provincial highways, replacing the old Highway Advertisements Regulation with a new permit-based framework and introducing a formal Tourist-Oriented Directional (TOD) sign program for tourism businesses.