New Brunswick bills

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 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 replaces the existing Canadian Judgments Act with updated rules for registering and enforcing court judgments from other Canadian provinces and territories in New Brunswick, including civil protection orders and tax judgments.

This bill establishes rules for when New Brunswick courts have jurisdiction over legal proceedings and creates a formal process for transferring cases between New Brunswick courts and courts in other provinces, territories, or foreign jurisdictions.

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 New Brunswick bill creates a unified complaints process for handling misconduct, neglect of duty, and incapacity allegations against Provincial Court judges and Small Claims Act adjudicators, replacing the separate procedures that previously existed under the Provincial Court Act and the Small Claims Act.

This New Brunswick bill amends the Apprenticeship and Occupational Certification Act to recognize apprenticeship credentials from other Canadian provinces and territories, introduces compliance orders for enforcement, and waives registration and assessment fees for out-of-province apprentices.

This bill makes technical amendments to two New Brunswick laws — the Highway Act and the Salvage Dealers Licensing Act — updating language around vehicle identification to require both a vehicle identification number (VIN) and a vehicle registration plate number when establishing vehicle identity in offence proceedings and salvage dealer record-keeping.

This bill amends New Brunswick's Probate Court Act to update the probate tax rate schedule and make minor French-language corrections to the Act's wording.

This bill authorizes the New Brunswick government to spend an additional $121.5 million from the provincial Consolidated Fund for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, covering expenses not included in the original budget across several departments.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 New Brunswick bill creates the Office of the Energy Sector Consumer Advocate, a new independent office that advocates for residential and small business consumers in energy regulatory proceedings, replacing the former Public Intervener for the Energy Sector. The Advocate can receive complaints, intervene before the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, and promote energy literacy.

This New Brunswick bill replaces the 'Public Intervener' role with a new 'Energy Sector Consumer Advocate' and expands regulatory oversight of NB Power's consumer-facing policies, giving the Energy and Utilities Board new powers to hear complaints, order reimbursements, and approve the utility's customer-related policies.