NY A03063 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: Engrossed on April 22 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-05-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Pending: Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on April 22 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-05-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Pending: Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
Title
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2015-04-22 - Assembly - Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage (Y: 109 N: 31 NV: 0 Abs: 9) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2016-05-05 | Senate | REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION |
2016-05-04 | Assembly | delivered to senate |
2016-05-04 | Assembly | passed assembly |
2016-01-06 | Assembly | ordered to third reading cal.139 |
2016-01-06 | Senate | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
2016-01-06 | Senate | DIED IN SENATE |
2015-04-22 | Senate | REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION |
2015-04-22 | Assembly | delivered to senate |
2015-04-22 | Assembly | passed assembly |
2015-03-27 | Assembly | advanced to third reading cal.137 |
2015-03-26 | Assembly | reported |
2015-03-17 | Assembly | reported referred to ways and means |
2015-01-22 | Assembly | referred to environmental conservation |
Same As/Similar To
S01525 (Same As) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION