NY A08490 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Engrossed on June 22 2009 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-04-20 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Pending: Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on June 22 2009 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-04-20 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Pending: Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Summary
This bill would establish a Permanent Environmental justice Advisory Group within the Department of Environ- mental Conservation (DEC) and an Environmental Justice Interagency Coor- dinating Council, and would require state agencies to adopt and abide by effective environmental justice policies.
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; 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.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2010-04-20 - Assembly - Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage (Y: 144 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-20 | REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION | |
| 2010-04-20 | delivered to senate | |
| 2010-04-20 | passed assembly | |
| 2010-01-06 | ordered to third reading cal.592 | |
| 2010-01-06 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |
| 2010-01-06 | DIED IN SENATE | |
| 2009-06-22 | REFERRED TO RULES | |
| 2009-06-22 | delivered to senate | |
| 2009-06-22 | passed assembly | |
| 2009-06-18 | amended on third reading 8490a | |
| 2009-06-10 | ordered to third reading rules cal.217 | |
| 2009-06-10 | rules report cal.217 | |
| 2009-06-10 | reported | |
| 2009-06-10 | reported referred to rules | |
| 2009-06-02 | reported referred to ways and means | |
| 2009-05-21 | referred to environmental conservation |
