Alberta.

• Author: Rempel, Jody
• Position: Legislative Reports

1st Session of the 30th Legislature

The first sitting of the 30th Legislature adjourned for the summer on July 3, 2019. In September it was confirmed that the fall sitting would commence, two weeks earlier than anticipated, on October 8, 2019. It has also been announced that the 2019 Budget address will take place on October 24, 2019.

Committee Business

On December 4, 2018, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta referred the review of the Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act to the Standing Committee on Families and Communities, pursuant to section 14 of the Act. However, when the 29th Legislature was dissolved in March 2019, the Committee had not completed its review. To fulfill the requirements of the legislation, on July 2, 2019, the Act was again referred for review, this time to the Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. The Committee invited the public, identified stakeholders and participants in the previous Committee's review to provide written submissions regarding the Act by September 9, 2019.

Following the May 2019 changes to the Standing Orders all Private Members' Public Bills now stand referred to the new Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members' Public Bills after first reading. The Committee must consider each bill and report back to the Assembly within eight sitting days with a recommendation of whether a Bill should proceed. During the spring sitting the Committee reviewed three bills: Bill 201, Protection of Students with Life-threatening Allergies Act, which has since received Royal Assent; Bill 202, Child, Youth and Family Enhancement (Protecting Alberta's Children) Amendment Act, 2019, which is currently in Committee of the Whole; and Bill 203, An Act to Protect Public Health Care, which has been reported to the Assembly. The motion to concur in the report for Bill 203, which recommends that the Bill not proceed, will be debated at the earliest opportunity.

On July 3, 2019, the Legislative Assembly referred consideration of the 2017 Annual Report of the Alberta Property Rights Advocate to the Standing Committee on Alberta's Economic Future. Having met with the Advocate and the ministries affected by the recommendations made in the Advocate's report, the Committee has...