Bill C-235 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fetal alcohol disorder)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Larry Bagnell Liberal

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

Status

Defeated, as of Dec. 13, 2016
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to establish a procedure for assessing individuals who are involved in the criminal justice system and who may suffer from a fetal alcohol disorder. It requires the court to consider, as a mitigating factor in sentencing, a determination that the offender suffers from a fetal alcohol disorder.
The enactment also requires the court to make orders to require individuals who are determined to suffer from a fetal alcohol disorder to follow an external support plan to ensure that they receive the necessary support to facilitate their successful reintegration into society.
Lastly, it makes consequential amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.

Similar bills

C-656 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fetal alcohol 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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-235s:

C-235 (2022) Law Building a Green Prairie Economy Act

C-235 (2020) Ending the Stigma of Substance Use Act

C-235 (2020) Ending of the Stigma of Substance Use Act

C-235 (2013) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (failure to inform)

C-235 (2011) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (failure to inform)

C-235 (2010) An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (occupational disease registry)

Votes

Dec. 13, 2016 Failed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

February 25th, 2016 / 10:10 a.m.

Liberal

Larry Bagnell Liberal Yukon, YT

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-235, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fetal alcohol disorder).

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce an act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act with respect to fetal alcohol disorder, seconded by the member for Humber River—Black Creek.

I want to first give credit to the Canadian Bar Association and former president Rod Snow, whose recommendations form the basis of this bill, and the member for Charlottetown, who first tabled the identical bill on March 10, 2015. When the precursor to this bill was debated in this House, every member of every party who spoke were in favour to it.

It causes me great emotion to introduce this private member's bill to amend the Criminal Code to establish a procedure for the assessment of individuals who are involved in the criminal justice system and who may suffer from fetal alcohol disorder. It requires the court to consider a determination that the offender suffers from fetal alcohol disorder as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

The bill also requires Correctional Service Canada to recognize the existence of fetal alcohol disorder as a disability within that system.

This bill could alleviate so much human suffering of innocents, and I commend it into the hands of my colleagues, MPs and senators.

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