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Ten o’clock a.m.
Prayers and Reflections by Pete Davis.
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
Order called for “Private Members’ Statements.”
On the motion for second reading of Bill (No. M 204) intituled Perinatal and Postnatal Mental Health Strategy Act, a debate arose.
The debate continued.
Pursuant to Standing Order 25, division on the motion for second reading of Bill (No. M 204) was deferred until 30 minutes prior to the ordinary time fixed for adjournment.
And then the House adjourned at 11.55 a.m.
One-thirty o’clock p.m.
Order called for “Members’ Statements.”
Order called for “Oral Questions by Members.”
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
Pursuant to Order, the House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion “That the Speaker do now leave the Chair” for the House to go into Committee of Supply.
The debate continued.
On the motion of Claire Rattée, the debate was adjourned to the next sitting of the House.
Pursuant to Standing Order 25, in consideration of second reading of Bill (No. M 204) intituled Perinatal and Postnatal Mental Health Strategy Act, the House divided.
Motion agreed to nemine contradicente on the following division:
| Yeas — 91 | |||
| G. Anderson Blatherwick Elmore Sunner Toporowski B. Anderson Neill Osborne Brar Davidson Kahlon Parmar Gibson Beare Chandra Herbert Wickens Kang Morissette Sandhu Krieger Chant Lajeunesse Choi |
Rotchford Higginson Routledge Popham Dix Sharma Farnworth Eby Bailey Begg Greene Whiteside Boyle Ma Yung Malcolmson Chow Glumac Arora Shah Phillip Dhir Sturko |
Kindy Milobar Warbus Rustad Banman Wat Kooner Halford Hartwell L. Neufeld Van Popta Dew Gasper K. Neufeld Day Block Bhangu Paton Boultbee Chan Toor Hepner Giddens |
Rattée Davis McInnis Bird Luck Stamer Maahs Tepper Mok Wilson Clare Williams Loewen Dhaliwal Doerkson Chapman McCall Valeriote Botterell Kealy Armstrong Brodie |
Bill (No. M 204) read a second time and Ordered committed to the Select Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members’ Bills.
And then the House adjourned at 6.12 p.m.
HON. RAJ CHOUHAN, Speaker
Wednesday, March 12
Elenore Sturko to introduce a Bill intituled Mental Health Amendment Act, 2025.
Wednesday, March 12
9 The Hon. Mike Farnworth to move —
That, for the remainder of the current Session:
GENERAL
1. Certain proceedings of the House may be undertaken in two sections, designated Section A and Section B, to be subject to the rules that follow.
2. Section A sit in such committee room as may be designated from time to time, and Section B sit in the Legislative Chamber.
3. Section A and Section B be authorized to examine all Estimates, and for all purposes be deemed to be the Committee of Supply, and that the Standing Orders relating to the consideration of Estimates in the Committee of Supply and to Committees of the Whole House be applicable to such proceedings, save and except that, during proceedings in Committee of Supply, a Minister may defer to a Deputy Minister to permit such Deputy to reply to a question put to the Minister.
4. Section A and Section B be authorized to consider bills at committee stage after second reading thereof, and for all purposes be deemed to be a Committee of the Whole House, and that the Standing Orders relating to the consideration of bills in a Committee of the Whole House be applicable to such proceedings.
5. Estimates or bills may be considered in the order determined by the Government House Leader and may at any time be subsequently referred to another designated Section, as determined by the Government House Leader in accordance with Standing Order 27 (2).
COMPOSITION
6. The Deputy Chair, Committee of the Whole or their designate preside in Section A.
7. Section A consist of 12 Members, not including the Chair, being six Members of the B.C. NDP Caucus, five Members of the Conservative Party of British Columbia Caucus, and one Member of the B.C. Green Party Caucus.
8. The Members of Section A be: the Minister whose Estimates are under examination or who is in charge of the bill under consideration and Rohini Arora, Hon. Ravi Parmar, Janet Routledge, Harwinder Sandhu, Amna Shah, Amelia Boultbee, Gavin Dew, Steve Kooner, Lawrence Mok, David Williams and Rob Botterell.
9. Substitutions for Members of Section A be permitted with the consent of the Member’s Caucus Whip.
10. Section B be composed of all Members of the House.
DIVISIONS
11. When a division is requested in Section A, the division bells shall be rung four times and the division shall proceed in accordance with Standing Order 16.
12. When a division is requested in Section B, the division bells shall be rung three times, at which time proceedings in Section A shall be suspended, and the division shall proceed in accordance with Standing Order 16.
13. If a division is underway in Section A at the time that a division is requested in Section B, the division in Section B be suspended until the completion of the division in Section A.
REPORTING AND COMPLETION
14. At 15 minutes prior to the ordinary time fixed for adjournment of the House, the Chair of Section A shall report to the House.
10 The Hon. Mike Farnworth to move —
That, effective March 31, 2025,
1. Standing Order 2 (1) be amended to provide for the Monday afternoon sitting, Tuesday afternoon sitting, and Wednesday afternoon sitting to be from 1.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; and,
2. Standing Order 3 be amended by striking the words “6:30 p.m. on any Monday and Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday” and replacing them with “9:00 p.m. on any Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday”.
And that this order expire on May 30, 2025.
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