C-336Strengthening Reporting Obligations for Sex Offenders Act (Noah's Law)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act
Private member's bill, introduced in the House of Commons on June 5, 2023
- Status
- At second reading in the House of Commons since June 5, 2023
What it does
Lets courts order some sex offenders to report for 30 years, adds move reporting rules, and creates an offence for missing required reports.
What it does
- Allows a court, on the prosecutor’s request, to order a person likely to reoffend to keep following sex offender reporting rules for 30 years.
- Requires a person under that 30-year order to finish a province-approved sex offender treatment program before asking to end the order after 20 years.
- Lets the prosecutor or the person appeal a court decision on one of these orders on a question of law or mixed law and fact.
- Requires sex offenders to report to a registration centre every 6 to 7 months after their last report.
- Requires a sex offender who plans to change their main residence to report to the proper registration centre within 7 days before the move and give the new address or location and date.
- Creates an offence, punishable on summary conviction, for failing without reasonable excuse to report as required.
Who it affects
- Sex offenders on the registry
- People likely to reoffend
- Courts
- Prosecutors
- Police services
- Provincial treatment programs
Topics
Background
It amends the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act.
Where it is
House of Commons
First reading
Completed.
Second reading
Current stage. Now here
Committee
Not reached.
Report stage
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Third reading
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Senate
First reading
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Second reading
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Committee
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Third reading
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Royal assent
Royal assent
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Introduced by an MP who is not a minister. These bills compete in a lottery for debate time, and most do not become law. How a bill becomes law
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What MPs said
Each party’s first speech on this bill in the House, from Hansard. Excerpts are the speaker’s opening sentences, unedited.
ConservativeGerald Soroka· June 5, 2023
“Moved for leave to introduce Bill C-336, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (Noah's Law). I would like to present my first private member's bill, the strengthening reporting obligations for sex offenders act, Noah's law, which is seconded by the hon. member for Battle River—Crowfoot.”
Read the full speech on openparliament.ca
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