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Jury Duty Appreciation Week

S-226 Jury Duty Appreciation Week Act: An Act respecting Jury Duty Appreciation Week

Designates the second week of May each year as Jury Duty Appreciation Week.

What Bill S-226 would do

The bill would designate the second week of May each year as Jury Duty Appreciation Week. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment designates the second week of May in each and every year as “Jury Duty Appreciation Week”. Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-226 An Act respecting Jury Duty Appreciation Week

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Senator's bill
Sponsor
Lucie Moncion, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedJun 5, 2025
  2. Being studiedsince Sep 22 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights · since September 22, 2026A committee of MPs or senators is going through it line by line.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Passed the Senate; now in the House, in committee there

  1. First reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 2 sitting days, to

  3. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  5. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

    Before the House on 2 sitting days, to · 2 debates here

    2nd reading and referral to committee - JUST: agreed to,

  6. Committee in the House now

    Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

  7. Report stage in the House not yet

  8. Third reading in the House not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: At consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights · since September 22, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 2

Members who spoke: Conservative 5 Liberal 3 Bloc Québécois 2

Second reading 2

  1. Jury Duty Appreciation Week Act

    · Sitting 110 · 13 statements · 12 graded

    6 members spoke

  2. Jury Duty Appreciation Week Act

    · Sitting 141 · 6 statements · 5 graded

    6 members spoke

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