Bill C-590 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (blood alcohol content)

This bill was last introduced in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Randy Hoback  Conservative

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

Status

Third reading (House), as of June 5, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends section 255 of the Criminal Code to establish the possibility of imposing more severe penalties for offences committed under section 253 in circumstances where the offender has a blood alcohol content that exceeds one hundred and sixty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood and to raise the minimum penalties that apply to convictions for impaired driving causing bodily harm or death.

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.

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 6, 2015

  • Michael Zigayer, Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 11, 2015

  • Hal Pruden, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
  • Olena Ponomarenko, Chief of the Secretariat, High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine
  • Victor Korolenko, Head of the Office for Representing the Interests of the President of Ukraine in the Courts, Administration of the President, Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada)
  • Vasyl Yanitski, Deputy Head, Supreme Rada Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Justice, Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada)