Table of contents
- Increasing access to justice for Albertans
- Keeping Alberta’s tax laws up to date
- Modernizing compensation governance
- Protecting Albertans’ pensions
- Protecting Alberta’s tax advantage
- Providing clarity on public health order decisions
- Streamlining professional governance laws
- Modernizing Alberta’s electricity system
- Implementing red tape reduction
- Modernizing condominium laws
- Enabling energy rebates
- Providing Albertans extra job protection
- Diversifying Alberta’s insurance sector
- Reforming teacher profession discipline processes
- Enhancing sexual assault law education
- Innovating the finance sector
- Making trust laws more efficient
- Transforming continuing care
- Protecting the health of women and girls
- Strengthening public’s right to know
- Designating Alberta's official gemstone
- Protecting roadside workers
- Delivering certainty for public health rules
- Recognizing special days
- Implementing Budget 2022
- Recognizing the Platinum Jubilee
- Renaming Calgary constituency
- Putting students first
- Improving Alberta’s waste management
- Protecting and preserving Alberta’s outdoors
- Improving the affordable housing system
- Restoring tax accountability
- Upholding the value of artists to Alberta
- Strengthening infrastructure planning
- COVID-19 civil liability protection
- Modernizing post-secondary education
- Modernizing public health laws
- Empowering citizen initiatives
- Holding elected officials accountable
- Improving child care
- Establishing the Heroes' Fund
- Strengthening the financial sector
- Financing transportation projects
- Modernizing justice and policing
- Attracting job creating investment
- Improving public health care
- Restoring balance in Alberta’s workplaces
- Strengthening democracy in Alberta
- Making Alberta roads safer
- Strengthening mental health care
- Creating an Alberta Parole Board
- Supporting victims of crime and public safety
- Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act
- Strengthening Alberta’s justice system
- Introducing the Alberta Firearms Act
- Protecting property rights
- Protecting survivors of human trafficking
- Modernizing Alberta's Police Act
- Preserving Canada's economic prosperity
- Protecting critical infrastructure
- Carbon tax repeal
- Job Creation Tax Cut
- Public sector wage arbitration deferral
- Alberta Senate Election Act
Status: Bill 70 received royal assent on June 17, 2021
Ministry responsible: Health
Overview
Bill 70: the COVID-19 Related Measures Act provides Alberta’s health system with civil liability protection in the event of transmission or possible exposure to COVID-19 in health-care settings.
This protection did not exist before in the Public Health Act or any other provincial legislation.
Key changes
The COVID-19 Related Measures Act ensures health services providers cannot be held liable for damages due to COVID-19 spread or exposure as long as they follow public health orders, guidance and legislation. Protection would not apply in the event of gross negligence.
The legislation applies to:
- Alberta Health Services
- regulated health professionals
- health service facilities, including:
- hospitals
- long-term care facilities
- licensed supportive living
- pharmacies
- residential addiction treatment facilities
- any owner, employee, contractor, and others in these groups
- anyone else identified through future regulation as needed
Next steps
Bill 70, the COVID-19 Related Measures Act received royal assent on June 17, 2021, and took effect retroactively on March 1, 2020.
News
- Protecting health services from COVID-19 liability (April 22, 2021)
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