Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion Act

An Act respecting a Comprehensive Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion

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

Sponsor

Kirsty Duncan  Liberal

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 Jan. 27, 2014
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment proposes to enhance public awareness and education and improve current practices respecting the prevention, diagnosis and management of concussion. It establishes a Pan-Canadian Concussion Awareness Week and requires the Minister of Health to initiate discussions with his or her provincial and territorial counterparts to develop a Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion, one element of which will be to develop a template for a Centre for Excellence in Concussion Research. The enactment establishes a Concussion Board to advise the Minister respecting the design and implementation of the Strategy and sets various reporting and publishing requirements in order to promote best practices related to the prevention, diagnosis and management of concussion.

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.