Nova Scotia bills

This bill would create a Task Force to study whether Nova Scotia Power should be returned to public ownership, evaluating financial, environmental, and regulatory implications and comparing public versus private utility ownership models. The Task Force must report its findings by March 15, 2028.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial Minister of Finance and Treasury Board to produce and table an annual 'well-being budget' alongside the regular provincial budget, measuring and reporting on nine domains of well-being (such as health, environment, living standards, and democratic engagement) and assessing how government spending programs affect those domains.

This bill requires Nova Scotia's Minister of Health and Wellness to work with New Brunswick's Minister of Health to create a cross-border emergency ambulance services strategy for the Cumberland County (NS) and Westmorland County (NB) border region, ensuring ambulance providers can operate and respond on both sides of the provincial border.

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 amends the Labour Standards Code to give employees the right to paid sick leave — up to one day per month, capped at ten days per year — for their own illness, injury, or medical emergency, or for a family member's medical emergency or death. It also clarifies that employers cannot retaliate against workers who ask them to follow the Act.

This Nova Scotia bill strengthens protections for provincial parks by preventing the government from reducing or revoking park designations without a full Act of the Legislature, banning certain private activities within parks, and requiring the province to protect at least 20% of its land and water by 2030.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Health Services and Insurance Act to make prescription birth control — including oral/injectable contraceptives and long-acting devices like IUDs — a fully covered insured service under the provincial MSI Plan, with no deductibles or co-payments required from patients.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial Minister of Health to establish cancer care centres at each regional hospital, offering both virtual and in-person services including screening, chemotherapy, and specialist access, while also ensuring residents near provincial borders can access cancer treatments like radiation in neighbouring provinces when closer.

This Nova Scotia bill adds mine rescue workers to the list of occupations that receive automatic (presumptive) workers' compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder, meaning they no longer need to prove their PTSD was caused by their work.

This Nova Scotia bill replaces the existing Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, consolidating and modernizing rules governing public access to government records and the protection of personal information held by public bodies, including provincial departments, municipalities, hospitals, universities, and similar entities.

This Nova Scotia bill does two things: it creates a temporary process allowing property owners to apply for court-ordered access to a neighbour's land when needed to complete eligible construction or development work, and it restructures the regional transportation agency (renamed 'Link Nova Scotia') by placing it under direct ministerial control and expanding its mandate to plan and coordinate transportation across the Halifax region.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Labour Standards Code to give employees who have experienced gender-based violence the right to a paid leave of absence (up to 10 days paid per year, plus up to 16 weeks unpaid) for purposes such as seeking medical or psychological help, relocating, or pursuing legal action.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the Minister of Agriculture to develop and publish an Agriculture Expansion Strategy within six months, setting targets and government actions to grow local demand and export opportunities for Nova Scotian farm products, with full implementation by January 1, 2027.

Nova Scotia's Powering the Offshore Act overhauls the province's electricity and offshore renewable energy framework by enacting a new Electricity Act, updating marine renewable energy licensing rules, enabling competitive wholesale electricity purchasing, and creating new programs for net metering, community solar, green choice procurement, and hydrogen innovation.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the Minister of Finance to identify areas with the highest child poverty rates and launch a Guaranteed Basic Income pilot project within one year, running for at least four years with a formal evaluation tabled in the legislature.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the Minister of Health and Wellness to publicly report monthly and annually on emergency department closures at rural hospitals, including closure hours and steps being taken to reduce them.

This Nova Scotia omnibus bill enacts new Agricultural Weed Control and Agrologists Acts, modernizes the Petroleum Resources Act (adding orphan well fund authority and clarifying hydraulic fracturing restrictions), extends a demand-side management energy agreement by one year, and repeals the Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the government to appoint an independent panel to study grocery pricing and food affordability in the province, with the panel required to deliver an interim report within 12 months and a final report within 18 months, after which the government must publicly respond with an action plan.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the Minister of Education to publish a standardized province-wide policy within six months governing how community groups can book and use public school facilities, with free access for sports and recreational organizations and minimized fees for others.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial government to establish a rent-to-own starter home program by January 1, 2027, building prefabricated homes at four or more locations and offering them to first-time, lower-income buyers who can't qualify for traditional mortgages, with 50% of rent credited toward a down payment.