Nova Scotia bills

This Nova Scotia bill sets legally binding targets to reduce core housing need by 50% and achieve 12,500 housing starts per year by 2035, and creates an Independent Housing Officer to monitor and report on the government's progress toward those targets.

This Nova Scotia bill proposes a publicly managed early learning and child care system that caps parent fees at $10 per day on average, prioritizes not-for-profit and public providers for new spaces, and introduces a centralized waitlist for licensed child care across the province.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial government to make regulated child care affordable (capped at $10/day average by March 31, 2026) and more accessible by expanding spaces, creating a centralized waitlist, and restricting new publicly funded spaces to not-for-profit and public providers only.

This Nova Scotia bill overhauls governance and accountability rules for the Community College, private career colleges, Research Nova Scotia Corporation, and universities, giving the Minister of Advanced Education significantly more direct control over operations, funding, strategic planning, and board appointments across the post-secondary sector.

This Nova Scotia bill makes a series of administrative changes to support housing development, primarily targeting Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) and provincial housing agencies. It gives the provincial Minister of Housing new powers to override municipal planning decisions related to water and wastewater infrastructure, extends the life of the Executive Panel on Housing by two years, streamlines the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency's board structure, and requires orientation training for newly elected municipal councillors across the province.

This Nova Scotia bill streamlines healthcare administration by repealing two older acts, allowing health providers to bill private or public insurers (beyond MSI) for insured services at higher rates, and expanding regulatory authority over donated human organs and tissue used for research or education.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial Minister of Addictions and Mental Health to develop a comprehensive ADHD framework covering resources for individuals and families, educator training, and improved access to evidence-based medical and mental health care, with a report due by January 1, 2028 and a follow-up effectiveness review within five years.

This bill requires Nova Scotia's Minister of Justice to annually report to the legislature on laws that have received Royal Assent but haven't yet been proclaimed in force, and mandates that any such law unproclaimed for over three years must either receive legislative approval to delay further or be repealed.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Fair Drug Pricing Act to require that antiviral drugs used for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be covered as a benefit under the provincial drug program with no copayment charged to patients.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Midwifery Act to set government targets for midwifery availability (one midwife per 14,000 residents per health zone), requires a midwifery education program in the province, and mandates annual public reporting by the Midwifery Regulatory Council on midwife numbers and birth statistics.

This Nova Scotia bill establishes a 2SLGBTQIA+ Bill of Rights by creating a government equity directorate and a permanent community advisory body to report on and make recommendations regarding 2SLGBTQIA+ issues, including housing, employment, health care, and government services.

This Nova Scotia bill establishes a 2SLGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee by May 1, 2027, tasked with monitoring the province's 2SLGBTQIA+ Action Plan and making recommendations to government ministers on healthcare, housing, school safety, and economic security for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

This bill amends the incorporating legislation of Banook Canoe Club, Limited in Nova Scotia to expand and simplify the club's borrowing powers, removing prior restrictions on how the corporation may borrow, raise, or secure money.

This bill amends the LaHave and District Fire Department Act in Nova Scotia to update governance procedures, modernize the name of the auxiliary group, and increase the department's borrowing limit from $250,000 to $5,000,000.

This bill amends a 1920 Nova Scotia private act to officially rename the Yarmouth Golf and Country Club to The Yarmouth Golf and Curling Centre, reflecting the organization's current activities.

This Nova Scotia bill directs the provincial government to create a training fund, revise procurement rules for large projects, and develop a plan to bring employment rates for First Nations and African Nova Scotians up to the provincial average by 2035.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the Workers' Compensation Board to ensure its caseworkers meet prescribed qualifications, including specific education, onboarding, training, and competency standards, and to publicly report on those standards and performance metrics.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Workers' Compensation Act to strengthen injured workers' rights to medical aid, requiring the Workers' Compensation Board to cover any healthcare service, product, or device needed to treat or manage a compensable injury, and imposing stricter procedural obligations before coverage can be denied or discontinued.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Workers' Compensation Act to allow injured workers to sue employers directly in workplace violence situations, lets workers keep receiving compensation benefits while pursuing third-party lawsuits, extends the deadline to file a written election, and ensures no double recovery occurs.

This bill amends Nova Scotia's Workers' Compensation Act to update benefit calculations, expand presumptive cancer coverage to Department of Natural Resources and Office of the Fire Marshall employees, modernize survivor and death benefit rules, increase annual benefit indexing to the full CPI change (capped at 3%), and give the Workers' Compensation Board and regulations more flexibility over deadlines and formulas.