Bill C-227 (Historical)

National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Act

An Act respecting the establishment of a National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

John Rafferty  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 16, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment provides for the establishment of a national strategy for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Similar bills

C-227 (41st Parliament, 1st Session) National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Act
C-569 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ActRoutine Proceedings

June 15th, 2011 / 3:30 p.m.


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NDP

John Rafferty NDP Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-227, An Act respecting the establishment of a National Strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Mr. Speaker, my bill asks the Government of Canada to establish a national strategy for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder that includes: the establishment, in co-operation with the provincial governments, of national standards for the treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and the delivery of related services; and the study, in co-operation with the provincial governments, of the funding arrangements for the care of those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, including the possibility of transferring federal funds to assist the provincial governments in providing treatment, education, professional training and other required supports for Canadians with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)