BILL NO. 78

(as introduced)

3rd Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
70 Elizabeth II, 2021

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Employment Support and Income Assistance Act
(amended)

 

Kendra Coombes
Cape Breton Centre

First Reading: March 31, 2021

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill prohibits the reduction of assistance on the basis of an applicant being enrolled in a prescribed post-secondary education program.

An Act to Amend Chapter 27
of the Acts of 2000,
the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act,
Respecting Post-secondary Education Programs

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 7 of Chapter 27 of the Acts of 2000, the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:

(3) A determination under subclause 7(2)(b)(i) or (ii) and a review under subclause 7(2)(b)(vi) must not reduce the assistance to which an applicant would otherwise be eligible on the basis that the applicant is enrolled in a prescribed post-secondary education program.

2 Subsection 21(1) of Chapter 27 is amended by adding immediately after clause (l) the following clause:

(la) prescribing post-secondary education programs or classes of post-secondary education programs for the purpose of subsection 7(3);

3 The money required for the purpose of this Act must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.

 

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