BILL NO. 179

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005

Private Member's Bill

Self-managed Support-care Act

H. David Wilson
Glace Bay

First Reading: April 28, 2005

Second Reading: May 17, 2005

Third Reading: May 19, 2005 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS) (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

An Act Respecting Support Services
for Disabled Persons in Self-managed Care

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 This Act may be cited as the Self-managed Support-care Act.

2 In this Act,

(a) "approved recipient" means a disabled individual for whom a duly qualified medical practitioner has certified to the Minister that self-managed support services are appropriate;

(b) "approved setting" means a place or set of circumstances in which a duly qualified medical practitioner has certified to the Minister it is appropriate for an approved recipient to receive support services;

(c) "Minister" means the Minister of Health;

(d) "support services" includes personal-care services, nursing services, nursing- assistant services and home-support and social-support services.

3 (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister shall, before December 31, 2005, establish a Province-wide self-managed support-care program that enables approved recipients to receive self-managed support services in their homes or other approved settings.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the self-managed support-care program referred to in subsection (1) shall

(a) permit the recipient of self-managed support services to select the person that provides the support services to the recipient; and

(b) provide funding for the payment for the support services to the recipient either directly to the recipient or through a funding delivery agent designated by the Minister.

(3) The moneys required for the purpose of subsections (1) and (2) shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.