Nova Scotia bills

This bill caps Nova Scotia Power Incorporated's regulated return on equity at 7.6% per year, starting in 2027, overriding any other law or agreement that might allow a higher return.

This bill amends Nova Scotia's Public Utilities Act to require the Nova Scotia Energy Board to commission an independent third-party savings review of Nova Scotia Power Incorporated within 30 days of the law coming into force. The review must examine Nova Scotia Power's cost of service, its handling of a March 2025 cybersecurity incident, reliability performance, coal dependency, and grid investment decisions.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Public Utilities Act to limit general rate increases for public utilities to no more than once every 60 months (up from 24 months), and requires the Energy Board to establish a multi-year rate plan of at least five fiscal years whenever a general rate increase is granted, with caps on annual increases and transparency requirements.

This Nova Scotia omnibus public safety bill makes sweeping changes across multiple laws, covering everything from allowing immediate dissolution of companies, co-operatives, and societies linked to terrorism, to modernizing the 911 system, expanding protections against non-consensual intimate image sharing (including AI-generated fakes and threats), enabling air ambulance flight path protections near hospitals, strengthening community safety orders against gang and trafficking activity, and establishing a formal Nova Scotia Conservation Officer Service.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Public Procurement Act to create a new Clinical Procurement Office led by a Medical Procurement Officer, who will be responsible for purchasing all healthcare services, supplies, and equipment for health professionals and organizations across the province.

This Nova Scotia bill requires employers convicted of offences under the Labour Standards Code or the Trade Union Act to repay any economic development assistance (tax credits, grants, payroll rebates, or financing) they received in the five-year window leading up to and including their conviction.

This bill requires Nova Scotia's Minister of Environment and Climate Change to establish a Provincial Lake Advisory Commission to help protect the province's lakes from blue-green algae blooms, development pressures, and climate change by making recommendations on monitoring, nutrient restrictions, and community stewardship.

This Nova Scotia bill requires the provincial government to develop a strategy and ultimately create a government-owned, Department of Health and Wellness-operated ambulance service to replace the current privately-operated EMC Emergency Medical Care Incorporated.

This Nova Scotia bill establishes a rent control framework that caps annual rent increases to the Consumer Price Index, restricts above-guideline increases to specific eligible expenditures, and introduces tenant protections including pet ownership rights, fixed-term lease renewal obligations, and penalties for landlords who charge above lawful rent.

This Nova Scotia bill amends the Trade Union Act to prohibit employers from closing a workplace during the period when workers are unionizing, bargaining their first contract, or in the first two years of a first collective agreement, if the closure is intended to undermine union activity.

This Nova Scotia bill replaces the existing rent review framework with a comprehensive rent control system that ties allowable annual rent increases to the provincial Consumer Price Index, restricts above-guideline increases to approved eligible expenditures, and establishes new tenant protections including vacancy control, pet ownership rights, and a new Compliance and Enforcement Division.

Bill 127 is an omnibus bill that makes changes across nine different Nova Scotia laws, including new rules for funeral homes providing cremation services, restrictions on collecting Social Insurance Numbers by businesses, new protections for domestic violence victims in rental situations, and expanded enforcement powers for conservation officers.

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 private member's bill requires the provincial government to designate enough additional protected land and water to reach 15% coverage by March 31, 2026, and sets out a roadmap toward 20% protection by 2030, with mandatory public reporting if the interim target is missed.

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 Nova Scotia bill establishes a legal right to privacy, making wilful privacy violations a tort, and introduces data protection obligations for businesses that collect personal information, including security freeze rights for consumers on their credit files.

This Nova Scotia bill prohibits any person or business from releasing or allowing the release of PFAS (so-called 'forever chemicals') into water supplies or waterways, with significant fines and potential imprisonment for violations.

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.

Nova Scotia's Powering the Economy Act restructures the province's energy sector by shifting renewable electricity compliance obligations to the Independent Energy System Operator, establishing a revenue and levy framework for offshore wind and other offshore renewable energy projects, and replacing the old Petroleum Resources Act with a new Subsurface Energy Resource Extraction Act that governs oil, natural hydrogen, geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, and related underground activities.

This Nova Scotia bill establishes a Weatherization Assistance Program offering grants of up to $10,000 to lower-income households (under $98,900 gross annual income) to improve home energy efficiency through insulation, heat pumps, air-sealing, and related upgrades.