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ENGLISHSUMMARYSUMMARYPreamblePreamble1 Employment Insurance Act1 Employment Insurance Act3 Coming Into Force3 Coming Into Force
First Session, Forty-third Parliament,
68-69 Elizabeth II, 2019-2020
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-242
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
FIRST READING, April 20, 2020
NOTE
2nd Session, 43rd Parliament
This bill was introduced during the first session of the 43rd Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the first session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Mrs. DeBellefeuille
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act to increase from 15 to 50 the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid because of illness, injury or quarantine.
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1st Session, 43rd Parliament, 
68-69 Elizabeth II, 2019-2020
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-242
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
Preamble
Whereas on February 19, 2020, the House of Commons supported by majority vote a motion calling on the government to increase the employment insurance special sickness benefits from 15 weeks to 50 weeks in order to support people with serious illnesses, such as cancer;
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1996, c. 23
Employment Insurance Act
1 Paragraph 12(3)‍(c) of the Employment Insurance Act is replaced by the following:
(c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is 50;
2 Paragraph 152.‍14(1)‍(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is 50;
Coming Into Force
Coming into force
3 This Act comes into force on April 1, 2020, or on the day on which it receives royal assent, whichever is earlier.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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