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No.31/2016

House of Assembly

Province of Newfoundland & Labrador

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1^st Session – 48^th General Assembly

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Wednesday, May 25^th, 2016

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

(a) Statements by Members

(a)(i) Honour 100

(b) Statements by Ministers

(d) Presenting Reports by Standing and Select Committees

(e) Tabling of Documents

(f) Notices of Motion

(g) Answers to questions for which notice has been given

(h) Petitions

ORDERS OF THE DAY

1. – Address in Reply

2. – Committee of Supply

Third Reading Bills

3. – Third Reading of a Bill − “An Act To Amend The College Act, 1996”. (Bill No. 29)

(Advanced Education and Skills)

Second Reading Bills

4. – Second Reading of a Bill − “An Act To Amend The Revenue Administration Act No. 6”. (Bill No. 23)

(Finance and President of Treasury Board)

MOTIONS

1. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move “That This House Approves in General the Budgetary Policy of the Government.” (Budget Speech)

2. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on Supply to Consider Certain Resolutions Relating to the Granting of Supply to Her Majesty.

(Bill No. 11)

3. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider a Resolution Respecting the Imposition of Taxes on Personal Income. (Bill No. 13)

4. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider a Resolution Respecting the Imposition of a Deficit Reduction Levy on Taxable Income. (Bill No. 14)

5. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider a Resolution Respecting the Imposition of Taxes on Insurance Premiums. (Bill No. 19)

6. − THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider a Resolution Respecting the Imposition of Taxes on Tobacco. (Bill No. 22)

7. — THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD − To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, “An Act To Amend The Income Tax Act, 2000 No. 5”. (Bill No. 17)

8. — THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD – To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, “An Act To Amend The Pensions Funding Act And The Teachers' Pensions Act”. (Bill No. 28)

9. — THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY – To

Move:

“WHEREAS the Lieutenant Governor in Council appointed a tribunal under section 28 of the Provincial Court Act, 1991 to make recommendations on the salaries and benefits of judges and the chief judge;

AND WHEREAS the tribunal submitted its recommendations to the Minister of Justice and Public Safety on December 21, 2015;

AND WHEREAS the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Court Judges Salary and Benefits Tribunal Report was tabled in this Honourable House on March 17, 2016 as required by section 28.2 of the Act;

AND WHEREAS the House of Assembly is required to approve, vary or reject the report within the period of time referred to in that section;

AND WHEREAS Government has decided to ask this Honourable House to accept all but one of the recommendations of the tribunal as contained in its report of December 21, 2015;

AND WHEREAS Government has decided to ask this Honourable House to reject one of the recommendations;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House accept the recommendations of the 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Court Judges Salary and Benefits Tribunal set out in Schedule A;

AND THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House reject the recommendation set out in Schedule B for the reasons given;

AND THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the recommendations of the Tribunal that this Honourable House accepts and rejects, as set out in Schedules A and B, be implemented effective April 1, 2013”.

10. – MS. LISA DEMPSTER (Cartwright – L'Anse au Clair) − To Move:

“BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House supports the Government's proposal to provide the Newfoundland and Labrador Seniors' Benefit, a refundable tax credit for low-income seniors, which this year is providing some 42,000 seniors in our Province with payments of up to $971 – the highest amount ever”.

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The Commemoration of the First World War and the Battle of Beaumont Hamel

Lest We Forget

Ridgley, John Benjamin	Rodgers, Thomas Edward	Ross, Michael Joseph
Ridout, Garland	Rogers, Simeon	Ross, R. Wallace
Ridout, Sydney	Rolls, Walter	Rossiter, Matthew
Ring, Thomas J.	Romaine, Harold	Rowe, Charles
Roberts, Albert	Ronan, Thomas	Rowe, Frederick
Roberts, Cecil	Roost, William Joseph	Rowe, Henry
Roberts, Francis	Roper, Frederick Charles	Rowe, Henry Mott
Roberts, Frank	Rose, Cecil	Rowsell, Edward Clayton
Roberts, Frank	Rose, George	Rowsell, Gordon
Roberts, John	Rose, George	Rowsell, H. John R.
Roberts, Ray Maxwell	Rose, James	Rowsell, Reginald S.
Roberts, Thomas Stephen	Rose, John	Russell, John
Rodgers, Edward Joseph	Rose, John
Rodgers, Thomas	Rose, Peter