Bill 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.81
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Introduced | 2019-01-15 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
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