Bill 40, An Act to amend the Balanced Budget Act and various legislative provisions concerning the implementation of the accounting reform

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Information

Sponsor

Bachand, Raymond,	Minister of Finance

Type

Government bills

This bill

was introduced during the 39^th Legislature, 1^st Session

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 Balanced Budget Act and various legislative provisions concerning the implementation of the accounting reform (PDF,  84 KB) 
• Sitting held on May 13, 2009

Adoption in principle

• Sitting held on May 29, 2009
• Sitting held on June 2, 2009
• Sitting held on June 4, 2009
• Sitting held on June 5, 2009
• Sitting held on June 9, 2009
• Sitting held on June 10, 2009 (Vote : Pour 58, Contre 46, Abstention 1)

Special consultations

• Sitting held on June 2, 2009

Tabling of committee report - Consultation

• A report from the Committee on Public Finance, which, on 2 June 2009, heard the Auditor General of Québec within the framework of the consideration of Bill 40, An Act to amend the Balanced Budget Act and various legislative provisions concerning the implementation of the accounting reform (PDF,  82 KB) 
• Sitting held on June 3, 2009

Committee stage

• Sitting held on June 10, 2009
• Sitting held on June 11, 2009
• Sitting held on June 12, 2009
• Sitting held on June 15, 2009
• Sitting held on June 16, 2009
• Sitting held on September 15, 2009
• Sitting held on September 16, 2009
• Sitting held on September 17, 2009

Tabling of committee report - Detailed consideration

• Le rapport de la Commission des finances publiques qui, les 10, 11, 12, 15 et 16 juin 2009, et les 15, 16 et 17 septembre 2009, a procédé à l’étude détaillée du projet de loi n° 40, Loi modifiant la Loi sur l’équilibre budgétaire et diverses dispositions législatives concernant la mise en œuvre de la réforme comptable. La Commission n’a pas complété l’étude de ce projet de loi (PDF,  766 KB) 
• Sitting held on September 18, 2009 (Amendements)

Report stage

• Sitting held on September 18, 2009 (Amendements. À la majorité des voix.)

Passage

• Sitting held on September 18, 2009 (Vote : Pour 61, Contre 48, Abstention 0)

Assent

• An Act to amend the Balanced Budget Act and various legislative provisions concerning the implementation of the accounting reform

Date of assent: September 21, 2009

Chapter in the annual volume of the Statutes of Québec: 2009, chapitre 38

Coming into force

date de la sanction : 2009-09-21