The House is on summer break, scheduled to return Sept. 15

Bill S-230 (Historical)

Providing Alternatives to Isolation and Ensuring Oversight and Remedies in the Correctional System Act (Tona’s Law)

An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act

This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.

Status

Senate bill, now waiting to be considered in the House, as of Dec. 10, 2024
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to, among other things,
(a) require that, if a person who is sentenced, transferred or committed to a penitentiary has disabling mental health issues, they will be transferred to a hospital;
(b) ensure that a person may only be confined in a structured intervention unit for longer than 48 hours on an order of a superior court;
(c) allow for the provision of correctional services and plans for release and reintegration into the community to persons from disadvantaged or minority populations by community groups and other similar support services; and
(d) allow for persons who are sentenced to a period of incarceration or parole ineligibility to apply to the court that imposed that sentence for a reduction if there has been unfairness in the administration of their sentence.

Similar bills

S-205 (current session) Providing Alternatives to Isolation and Ensuring Oversight and Remedies in the Correctional System Act (Tona’s Law)

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 S-230s:

S-230 (2025) National Strategy for Soil Health Act
S-230 (2021) An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (granting citizenship to certain Canadians)
S-230 (2016) Drug-Impaired Driving Detection Act
S-230 (2015) Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act

Message from the SenateGovernment Orders

December 10th, 2024 / 7 p.m.


See context

The Speaker Greg Fergus

I have the honour to inform the House that a message has been received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed the following bill, to which the concurrence of the House is desired: Bill S-230, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.

Citizenship and ImmigrationCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

April 24th, 2023 / 4:35 p.m.


See context

Conservative

Tom Kmiec Conservative Calgary Shepard, AB

Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member could perhaps answer the following question: Since we know that Bill S-230 passed in the previous Parliament and was debated at Senate committee, where witnesses came forward from a government department, why has the government not acted on this?

It has been over two years that it has known there are several groups of lost Canadians affected. Why has the government not tabled government legislation through the House of Commons, or starting in the Senate, that would have closed up all these different situations for them? The government did not act when it should have; instead, it waited for a senator on the Conservative benches to fix a problem that the Liberals admit exists. Why did this occur?