Nova Scotia

Essential Home-support Services Act: steps to pass

Here are the steps Bill 30, the Essential Home-support Services Act, will have to go through before becoming law.

More than 100 people have asked to speak to the Law Amendments Committee on the controversial Essential Home-support Services Act. The law would send the striking Northwood employees back to work. 

Here are the steps Bill 30 will have to go through before becoming law:

  1. The bill has passed first and second reading and is now with the law amendments committee.
  2. The law amendments committee will sit until midnight to get through all the speakers.
  3. The legislature won’t sit this weekend, but could reconvene at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
  4. There will be debate on the bill and amendments could be introduced.