New York Assembly Bill 8109 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Introduced on May 4 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation
Pending: Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill would establish a Permanent Environmental Justice Advisory Group within the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and an Environmental Justice Interagency Coordinating Council, and would require state agencies to adopt and abide by effective environmental justice policies.

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; provides that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.

Asm. Carmen Arroyo [D]	Asm. Michael Benjamin [D]	Asm. Richard Brodsky [D]	Asm. Kevin Cahill [D]
Asm. Joan Christensen [D]	Sen. Adriano Espaillat [D]	Sen. Michael Gianaris [D]	Asm. Carl Heastie [D]
Asm. Donna Lupardo [D]	Asm. Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]	Sen. Jose Peralta [D]	Asm. Jose Rivera [D]
Asm. Peter Rivera [D]	Asm. Michele Titus [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to environmental conservation
2009-05-04		referred to environmental conservation

S6316 (Same As) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08109&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08109&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08109