Quebec bills

This Quebec bill requires higher education institutions — including universities, CEGEPs, vocational centres, and several specialized schools — to create and implement a formal study-family-work balance policy within six months of the bill becoming law, aimed at supporting students who are parents or caregivers in completing their studies.

This Quebec bill aims to cut food waste in half by 2030 by requiring food processors, distributors, and retailers to actively try to donate or redirect their unsold food products to recognized organizations, with government oversight and penalties for non-compliance.

This Quebec bill requires all preschool, elementary, and secondary educational institutions (public and private) to develop and implement a formal policy to prevent and combat sexual violence within one year of the Act coming into force. The policy must cover complaint procedures, mandatory training, safety measures, support services, and a code of conduct for staff in positions of authority over students.

This Quebec bill requires anyone selling a passenger vehicle to provide the buyer with a verification notice from the SAAQ confirming the vehicle is free of encumbrances (such as loans or hypothecs), and requires used car dealers to display the results of a registry check on each vehicle's label. It also creates a compensation scheme for buyers harmed when the SAAQ's notice incorrectly omits existing registered rights.

This Quebec bill amends the Act governing the Generations Fund to lock in the Fund's dedicated purpose and credited amounts until it reaches a capitalization of $100 billion, preventing the government from redirecting those funds unless otherwise permitted by the existing Act.

This Quebec bill creates a formal system allowing individuals at risk of intimate partner violence to request that the Sûreté du Québec search for and disclose relevant information about a partner's history, with findings communicated through a designated support organization to help the person make informed safety decisions.

This bill amends the Act respecting the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to require the fund to pursue investments with sustainable social and environmental impacts as part of its core mission, and to report on those impacts annually to the Minister of Finance.

This Quebec bill amends the Education Act to legally require schools to provide equivalent educational services to students with disabilities, social maladjustments, or learning disabilities when the school cannot deliver standard services, with the goal of enabling personal development, societal integration, and academic progress toward a diploma.

This Quebec bill requires all projects added to the Québec Infrastructure Plan (QIP) to obtain ministerial authorization from the Environment Minister, who must assess and may refuse projects that jeopardize Quebec's greenhouse gas reduction targets. It also mandates a climate impact report accompany the QIP and requires government bodies to share relevant emissions data with the Environment Minister.

This bill amends the Québec Immigration Act to require that temporary residents be factored into the province's immigration planning process, alongside permanent immigrants, in both multi-year and annual immigration plans.

This Quebec bill amends the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system to prohibit the exclusion of community organizations from financial assistance programs solely because they have a social economy project (e.g., a cooperative, non-profit with commercial activities, or social enterprise component).

This Quebec bill makes any clause in a residential lease that prohibits companion animals legally void and unenforceable, applying to both new and existing leases.

This Quebec bill (Bill 5) creates a fast-track authorization process for large-scale projects designated as national priorities, allowing the government to streamline and consolidate the permits and approvals normally required under multiple Quebec laws, while incorporating amendments to protect Indigenous rights, environmental standards, and public consultation requirements.

This Quebec bill removes various regulatory restrictions on how physicians can practice medicine, including abolishing requirements for territorial medical staffing plans, eliminating mandatory specific medical activities for physicians under public agreements, repealing the law that restricted doctors from opting out of the public health system, and removing bed and 24-hour hospitalization limits for specialized medical centres.

This Quebec bill establishes a national air quality strategy and requires the government to adopt a five-year action plan aimed at improving air quality standards, increasing monitoring, and reducing health impacts from air pollutants across all regions of Quebec.

This Quebec bill gives every Member of the National Assembly (MNA) a formal legal right to visit a wide range of publicly funded institutions — from hospitals and schools to municipalities and Crown corporations — as part of their oversight role, and sets out the rules governing how those visits must be conducted.

This Quebec bill amends the Civil Code to prohibit landlords from evicting tenants on the grounds of converting a residential dwelling into short-term tourist accommodation (such as Airbnb-style rentals).

This Quebec bill restricts when the National Assembly can use the notwithstanding clause to override the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, limiting its use to situations of serious public peril or French/Indigenous language protection, and requires a two-thirds supermajority vote plus mandatory court opinions, ministerial reports, and public consultations before any override can pass.

This Quebec bill establishes a Self-Managed Personal Assistance Program that provides monthly financial benefits to persons with disabilities, allowing them to hire and direct their own personal assistants (including family members) for daily living activities, with the program administered by Retraite Québec.

This Quebec bill gives citizens the right to trigger formal environmental reviews by collecting enough signatures, and strengthens the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) by expanding its powers, increasing its independence, and absorbing the Strategic Environmental Assessment Advisory Committee's responsibilities.