Nova Scotia bills

This Nova Scotia bill eliminates provincial tax on used vehicle sales between private parties and provides an HST rebate on used vehicle sales by dealers, effectively exempting previously-registered used personal vehicles from the provincial portion of sales tax in both private and dealer transactions.

This Nova Scotia bill requires landlords to offer tenants the option to continue on a month-to-month basis at least 30 days before a fixed-term lease expires, and clarifies that if a tenant stays after the lease ends, it automatically converts to a month-to-month tenancy with existing rent increase cap protections applying.

This Nova Scotia bill requires electricity providers to source an increasing percentage of power from renewable sources (63% by 2027, rising to 80% by 2030), and prohibits those providers from passing carbon pricing compliance costs on to customers, with savings directed specifically to residential ratepayers.

This Nova Scotia bill creates a 'Community Assembly' — a randomly selected, representative group of citizens who use a structured deliberative process to assess whether there is public support for proposed government policies, reporting their findings to the Minister within one year of receiving a referral.

This Nova Scotia omnibus bill updates several municipal laws to modernize local government operations, including allowing tax relief for properties rebuilt after natural disasters, expanding Halifax's district energy system, streamlining childcare facility development approvals, updating municipal election rules, and creating a new Transportation Corridor Control Act to manage development near provincially designated transportation projects.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial government to consider installing wood chip heating systems in all new provincially owned public buildings and major retrofits, including schools and hospitals, as part of an ongoing initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This Nova Scotia bill strengthens the regulation of lobbyists by replacing the existing Registrar role with an independent Lobbying Commissioner, introducing a code of conduct, banning certain gifts to senior public officials, imposing a post-employment lobbying cooling-off period, and creating new enforcement powers including fines and lobbying prohibitions.

This Nova Scotia bill creates a licensing framework for virtual power plants — networks of distributed energy resources like solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps coordinated to act as a single grid resource. It establishes rules for how these aggregators operate, interact with customers, and participate in electricity markets.

This bill narrows the scope of a 1983 Nova Scotia law so that the Town of Kentville's special taxation authority over the Annapolis Valley Regional Industrial Park applies only to industrial and manufacturing properties, including food storage, processing, and packaging businesses — no longer covering commercial properties broadly.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial government to expand its existing home energy efficiency programs to include small landlords — those who own fewer than 20 rental units and no more than 12 units in a single building.

This Nova Scotia bill establishes a dedicated Rapid Transit Infrastructure Fund, administered by the Minister of Public Works, to provide financial assistance for planning, building, and expanding rapid transit systems such as bus, light rail, and commuter rail across the province.

This bill transfers the authority to approve supplementary government appropriations (extra spending beyond the original budget) from the Governor in Council (Cabinet) to the full House of Assembly, and limits the legislative debate on those appropriations to 20 hours.

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 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.

This bill amends Nova Scotia's Assessment Act to cap annual increases in the taxable assessed value of qualified properties at the lesser of 2.5% or the Nova Scotia Consumer Price Index increase.

This Nova Scotia bill makes several amendments across justice and social services legislation, including allowing electronic signatures for beneficiary designations, extending emergency protection orders up to one year, expanding support services for former youth in care up to age 25, and integrating social workers into the Regulated Health Professions Act.

This Nova Scotia bill creates a civil right to sue for privacy violations without needing to prove actual damages, making it a tort (a legal wrong) to wilfully intrude on someone's privacy through surveillance, eavesdropping, or similar conduct.

This bill authorizes the Nova Scotia provincial government to spend approximately $22 billion across all departments and offices for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, and allows the Minister of Finance to borrow up to $3.4 billion for public services.

This Nova Scotia bill creates a new provincial body called the Nova Scotia Child Care Organization and requires all licensed child care facilities in the province to use a single centralized electronic waitlist system, replacing individual facility waitlists. It also directs the government to fund child care at an average cost of no more than $10 per day.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Trade Union Act to allow automatic union certification (without a vote) when more than 50% of employees in a bargaining unit are union members in good standing, and lowers the threshold required to trigger a certification vote from 40% to 35%.