Bill 13, An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting by students in vocational training centres and post-secondary educational institutions

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Information

Sponsor

Drainville, Bernard,	Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship

Type

Government bills

This bill

was introduced during the 40^th Legislature, 1^st Session

The title of this bill was changed during the committee stage

Previous title

An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting outside a voter’s electoral division

Stages in the consideration of the Bill

Definition of the terms used:

• Amendment (one or more changes were made to the bill at this stage)
• Majority vote (the bill went through this stage with majority support in the Assemblée)
• Vote : Yeas, Nays, Abstentions; (the bill went through this stage following a vote, the results of which were recorded)
• The date of assent is followed by the year and chapter number of the Act assented to as they will appear in the Statutes of Québec. For instance, “2007, c. 7” following a date of assent means “Statutes of Québec 2007, chapter 7”.

Introduction

• An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting outside a voter’s electoral division (PDF,  116 KB) 
• Sitting held on November 30, 2012

Adoption in principle

• Sitting held on March 12, 2013

Committee stage

• Committee on Institutions
• Clause-by-clause consideration of Bill 13, An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting outside a voter’s electoral division
• Amendements retirés (PDF,  344 KB) 
• Amendments adopted (PDF,  553 KB) 
• Sitting held on March 19, 2013
• Sitting held on March 20, 2013
• Sitting held on March 21, 2013
• Sitting held on March 28, 2013

Tabling of committee report - Detailed consideration

• The report from the Committee on Institutions, which met on 19, 20, 21 and 28 March 2013 for clause-by-clause consideration of Bill 13, An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting outside a voter’s electoral division. The report contains certain amendments to the bill, including one to its title (PDF,  2 MB) 
• Sitting held on April 9, 2013 (Amendements dont un au titre)

Report stage

• Sitting held on April 16, 2013

Passage

• Sitting held on April 18, 2013 (Le débat terminé un vote par appel nominal est exigé puis reporté à la période des affaires courantes de la prochaine séance)
• Sitting held on April 23, 2013 (Vote : Pour 110, Contre 0, Abstention 0)

Assent

• An Act to amend the Election Act with regard to on-campus voting by students in vocational training centres and post-secondary educational institutions

Date of assent: April 24, 2013

Chapter in the annual volume of the Statutes of Québec: 2013, chapitre 5

Coming into force

24 avril 2013, sauf exceptions