Ontario Legislative Website – Status of Bills Information

Vicki Whitmell, the Executive Director of the Ontario Legislative Library, posted the following information on the CALL-L listserv today regarding checking for status of bills information:

Subject: Re: Ontario Bills – heads up UPDATE

At present, there are two places that you can find status of bill legislation. The first one is the public bills index:

http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/session2/index.htm.

This site is updated by the Journals Branch of the Assembly usually the same day or overnight.

The second site is the Library’s Bills before the House database.

http://www.ontla.on.ca/library/bills/billshome.htm

As the Library site relies on the information from the Status of Bill site, it is updated later.

The two sites are in the process of being merged. I will advise you on when the new site becomes available. In the meantime, you can rely on the Journals site for quick updates and on the Library site for more detailed information and background on the bills as they progress through the Legislature.