Bill 209The Manitoba Hydro Amendment Act (Net-Metering Agreements)/Loi modifiant la Loi sur l’Hydro-Manitoba (ententes de facturation nette) – The Manitoba Hydro Act is amended to require Manitoba Hydro to enter into a net-metering agreement with a residential customer in certain circumstances. Under a net-metering agreement, a customer provides electricity generated by their solar photovoltaic system to Manitoba Hydro. Manitoba Hydro must award the customer credit, measured in kilowatt-hours, that is equal to the difference between the amount of electricity the customer produced and consumed in a billing period. The credit must be applied to the customer’s future bills.
Manitoba Hydro must enter into a net-metering agreement in the following circumstances:
a customer with an existing solar photovoltaic system that meets the Act’s requirements requests to enter into such an agreement;
a customer requests approval of a proposed solar photovoltaic system and, within six months after the approval, installs the system as proposed.
Bill 212The Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Stalking-Related Measures)/Loi modifiant le Code de la route (mesures en cas de harcèlement criminel) – The Highway Traffic Act is amended to impose automatic driver’s licence suspensions on persons convicted of criminal harassment if a vehicle has been used in the commission of the offence. The licence suspensions are in addition to an existing provision under The Domestic Violence and Stalking Act that enables a person who is subject to stalking to request a court order that suspends a stalker’s driver’s licence. Further amendments authorize a peace officer to seize and impound a vehicle if the peace officer discovers a person using the vehicle to commit criminal harassment. When a person who previously committed two or more criminal harassment offences using a vehicle commits another such offence, their vehicle is subject to forfeiture.
November 18, 2025, News ReleaseFrom Promise to Progress: Manitoba Government Presents Throne Speech The Manitoba government was joined by members of the public and community leaders from across the province at the reading of the speech from the throne, which outlines what Manitobans can expect from their government this new session, Premier Wab Kinew announced today.
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Third Session, Forty-Third Legislature
Government Bills
Introduced
Bill1 An Act respecting the Administration of Oaths of Office/Loi sur la prestation des serments d’entrée en fonction — Formal Bill (not printed)
November 4, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Introduces Legislation to Provide Tax Relief to Manufacturers “The Manitoba government has introduced legislation that would enhance the province’s tax exemptions for investment, making them more competitive and business-friendly, Finance Minister Adrien Sala announced today.”
November 4, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Strengthens Early Reading Screening and Supports for Young Students “The Manitoba government has passed Bill 225, the Public Schools Amendment Act (Universal Screening for Learning Disabilities), which ensures every young student in the province receives early reading screenings to identify and address potential reading difficulties, Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt announced today.”
November 5, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Passes Legislation to Respond to Meth Crisis “The Manitoba government has passed legislation that would address the growing meth crisis across the province, giving police and health-care professionals more options to offer treatment immediately to people intoxicated by drugs in a safe space that protects the public, Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith announced today.”
November 7, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Delivers on Promises to Make Communities Safer “The Manitoba government is delivering a bold legislative agenda that puts people first by making communities safer, defending democratic rights, protecting affordable housing and modernizing the rules that shape daily life in Manitoba, government house leader Nahanni Fontaine announced today.”
Beginning on July 1, 2026, instead of paying seven percent retail sales tax on the purchase of manufacturing and processing equipment and having that tax later refunded through the manufacturing investment tax credit, the purchase of certain equipment will be exempt from retail sales tax.
The purchaser of the equipment will still be eligible for the one percent non-refundable component of the tax credit.
The full eight percent (seven percent refundable, one percent non-refundable) of the tax credit will continue to be available for the manufacturing and processing assets, including buildings, that are not eligible for the retail sales tax exemption.
October 16, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Acts to Protect Democracy and Fundamental Freedoms The Manitoba government has introduced legislation that would require any provincial legislation invoking Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly known as the notwithstanding clause, to be automatically referred to the Manitoba Court of Appeal for an opinion on whether the law violates charter rights, Premier Wab Kinew and Justice Minister Matt Wiebe announced today.
News ReleaseManitoba Government Introduces Legislation to Keep Vehicle Insurance Rates Affordable October 6, 2025 – The Manitoba government has introduced new legislation to enshrine the current registered owner model into law, ensuring it remains the model used by Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), Justice Minister Matt Wiebe, minister responsible for Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation, announced today.
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Second Session, Forty-Third Legislature
Government Bills
Introduced
Bill 49The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Amendment Act (2) – The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act is amended to clarify that any discount from a premium payable to insure a vehicle must be based on the driver safety rating of the registered owner of the vehicle.
Under the regulations, an exception may be made to this requirement.
Bill 211 The Local Elections Voter Eligibility Act (Various Acts Amended) – The Municipal Councils and School Boards Elections Act and The Northern Affairs Act are amended to lower the voting age to 16 and to allow permanent residents of Canada to vote in municipal, school board and community council elections.
The Public Schools Act is amended to lower the voting age to 16 and to allow permanent residents and students enrolled in a program provided by a francophone school board to vote in elections for that board.
A food bank may require the owner of a grocery store to enter into an agreement to donate all unsold usable food that would normally be thrown out to the food bank. The grocery store must notify the food bank when there is food available for pick-up unless grocery store staff deliver it to the food bank. The grocery store is prohibited from throwing out usable food except in specified circumstances.
The Manitoba Law Library would like to acknowledge with gratitude that we are situated on Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
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