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Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act
Parliament & Session
43th Parliament, Session 1
Chapter Number
29
Sponsored By
Legislative Progress
October 10, 2025
October 22, 2025
December 2, 2025
December 2, 2025
December 2, 2025
December 3, 2025
Bill Documents
| Reading Type | Date | File |
|---|---|---|
First Reading | 10/8/2025 | gov24-1.htm |
Third Reading | 12/2/2025 | gov24-3.htm |
Votes (2)
12/2/2025 at 03:45
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act Mable Elmore: The committee on Bill 24 reports the bill complete without amendment. The Speaker: When shall the bill be read a third time? Hon. Kelly Greene: Now. Third Reading of Bills Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act The Speaker: Members, the motion is third reading of Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act. Division has been called. [3:45 p.m.
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Nay
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11/25/2025 at 04:55
Given the massive crossover in the grey area, I don’t understand, again, why we would not include cannabis here to not rule it out. It’s the only specified product that is specifically excluded from this. We know that one-fifth of youth users, which this bill is targeting, are using the devices for both. I fully support this clause. I think we need to go further in this bill to protect our youth. I will be voting - Clause 1
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Nay
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Recent Statements
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 29 — Child, Family and Community Service Amendment Act, 2025
Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, has been read a third time and has passed.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act
Members, the motion is third reading of Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act. Division has been called.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act
The committee on Bill 24 reports the bill complete without amendment.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
Seeing no further speakers, the question before this House is the amendment proposed for Bill 24, clause 10.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
I think this is where…. This is the liability based on risk contribution, and I sort of believe that amendments are there to make a bill better, as well as in protecting our constituents and people in B.C. I gave the example of the cookies. If you buy cookies in a grocery store, there’s a label, and you actually know what you’re consuming. Unfortunately, even in any legitimate market, there are no labelling requirements. How can we attribute what is causing harm? It’s a way of fact-finding as well. I think it becomes much more clear. If there are certain ingredients that we know are causing harm, and it’s on the label, then we’re able to assess that. That’s why I’m bringing forward, for this bill…. I move, in the Committee of the Whole on Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, to amend as follows:
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
We will return to committee stage of Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, where we are contemplating clause 4.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
Thank you, Members. We will call this chamber back to order. We were contemplating an amendment to Bill 24. The amendment is not in order.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
Members, we’ll call a brief recess while we get our teams in place to get back to committee on Bill 24.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
In this chamber, I call continued committee on Bill 24. In Section A, Douglas Fir Room, I call committee stage on Bill 29.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 32 — Mental Health Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
Committee for Bill 24 reports progress and asks leave to sit again.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
It’s a point again to bring forward. But I’ll bring another point in terms of nicotine content labelling — the labelling of regulated versus unregulated and the addiction potential. I’m going to come back again to the harm reduction. It has to be taken into account that some people will not die because they’re vaping. They’ve switched from cigarettes to vaping. Hopefully they buy the regulated vapes, but unfortunately, the government isn’t looking at trying to clamp down on the unregulated market, especially for our youth. My experience as a physician is that it is a harm reduction tool, and that’s not taken into account whatsoever. By targeting the regulated market only, you’re actually targeting a product that’s probably safer overall. When you look at the number of deaths from cigarettes — lung issues, everything else — and the number of deaths from vaping, it’s not comparable. I don’t have the statistics in front of me. That’s again not taken into account. So I’d like to bring forward an amendment. I move in the Committee of the Whole on Bill 24, intituled Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, to amend as follows:
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
Thank you very much, Members. We’ll call this chamber back to order, where we are continuing committee stage of Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, where we are contemplating clause 4.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
Before I call orders of the day, I’d like to inform the House that the government considers third reading on Bill 32 to be a confidence motion. With that, in this House, I call committee stage on Bill 24. In Section A, Douglas Fir Room, I call committee stage on Bill 32. In the Birch Room, Section C, I call committee stage on Bill 29.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
The committee on Bill 24 reports progress and asks leave to sit again.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
All right. Session is back in order. We are on committee stage for Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
In this chamber, I call continued committee stage on Bill 24. In Section A, the Douglas Fir Room, I call continued committee stage on Bill 32.
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BC NDP
12/1/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
The committee on Bill 24 reports progress and asks leave to sit again.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/1/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
I’d like to propose an amendment to Bill 24.
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BC NDP
12/1/2025
Bill 24 — Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act (continued)
We’ll call the House back to order. We are in Committee of the Whole for Bill 24, Vaping Product Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, on clause 2.
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BC NDP
12/1/2025
Bill 29 — Child, Family and Community Service Amendment Act, 2025 (continued)
I’d like to call Committee of the Whole on Bill 24.
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