Bill C-310 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act (debt recovery)

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

Sponsor

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 Sept. 29, 2016
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Financial Administration Act to delegate to the Receiver General the authority to recover certain debts due to Her Majesty.

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-310s:

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1^st reading

Financial Administration ActRoutine Proceedings

September 29th, 2016 / 10:05 a.m.

Liberal

Rémi Massé Liberal Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-310, An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act (debt recovery).

Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to rise in the House today to introduce a bill to amend the Financial Administration Act with respect to debt recovery.

This legislative amendment would authorize the Receiver General for Canada to provide a debt recovery service for all departments, thereby improving the crown's debt recovery rate. This new service will enable the Government of Canada to recover significant sums owing that it was unable to recover before they were written off. This service will contribute to the sound management of public funds and will help the Government of Canada balance the budget.

I strongly believe that the people who work for the Receiver General's office in my riding have the banking and treasury expertise to do an excellent job of providing this service. This initiative will also help stabilize employment with the Receiver General for Canada while cultivating and establishing national debt-recovery expertise in my region.

I thank my colleagues in advance for supporting this bill.

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