Bill C-479 (Historical)

An Act to Bring Fairness for the Victims of Violent Offenders

An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fairness for victims)

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

Sponsor

David Sweet Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

The purpose of this enactment is to amend Part II of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act in respect of the following matters:
(a) the parole review of offenders who are serving a sentence of at least two years for an offence involving violence;
(b) the attendance of victims and members of their family at parole review hearings;
(c) the consideration of victims’ statements by the National Parole Board when making a determination regarding the release of an offender;
(d) the manner of presentation of victims’ statements at a parole review hearing;
(e) the providing of information under consideration by the Board to a victim;
(f) the cancellation of a parole review hearing if an offender has repeatedly refused to attend, or waived his or her right to attend, previous hearings;
(g) the providing of transcripts of a parole review hearing to the victim and members of their family and the offender; and
(h) the notification of victims if an offender is to be released on temporary absence, parole or statutory release.

Similar bills

C-479 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to Bring Fairness for the Victims of Violent Offenders

Elsewhere

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

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-479s:

C-479 (2010) An Act to amend the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Act (individuals or entities engaged in farming operations)

C-479 (2009) An Act to amend the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Act (individuals or entities engaged in farming operations)

C-479 (2007) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)

Votes

May 7, 2014 Passed That Bill C-479, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fairness for victims), as amended, be concurred in at report stage with a further amendment.

May 7, 2014 Passed That Bill C-479, in Clause 6, be amended by ( a) replacing line 9 on page 5 with the following: “6. (1) Subparagraph 142(1)( b)(iii) of the Act is repealed. (2) Subparagraphs 142(1)( b)(v) and (vi) of the Act are repealed. (3) Paragraph 142(1)( b) of the Act is” ( b) replacing line 18 on page 5 with the following: “(4) Subsection 142(1) of the Act is” ( c) replacing line 1 on page 6 with the following: “(5) Section 142 of the Act is amended by” ( d) replacing lines 4 and 5 on page 6 with the following: “information referred to in paragraph (1)( c) at least 14 days, where”

An Act to Bring Fairness for the Victims of Violent OffendersRoutine Proceedings

February 27th, 2013 / 3:25 p.m.

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Conservative

David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-479, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fairness for victims).

Mr. Speaker, it is with mixed feelings that I table An Act to Bring Fairness for the Victims of Violent Offenders. I am happy because the bill will bring comfort to thousands of victims for many years to come. What is weighing on my heart are powerful observations and emotions from my experiences attending National Parole Board hearings at the request of a constituent whose sister, niece and nephew were brutally murdered by a violent offender.

From this first-hand experience and others come a number of solutions in this private member's bill to enshrine the voice of victims in law and modernize the Corrections and Conditional Release Act so that victims do not have to relive their pain each year.

I ask for the support of all hon. members to bring these changes about.

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