Bill Text: NY S02222 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to post draft strategies and methodology developed no later than July 1, 2024; requires at least one public hearing and posting of the final goal strategies and methodology on such department's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-24 - SIGNED CHAP.119 [S02222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2222

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          public  awareness and involvement in the thirty by thirty conservation
          plan

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 of section 49-0113 of the environ-
     2  mental conservation law, as amended by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2022
     3  amending  the environmental conservation law relating to setting conser-
     4  vation goals for the state and including efforts to combat the biodiver-
     5  sity and climate crises in  the  state's  land  acquisition  policy,  as
     6  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  6191-A and A. 5390-B, are
     7  amended to read as follows:
     8    3. Conservation measures shall be undertaken in ways  that  serve  all
     9  communities, including low-income, disadvantaged and vulnerable communi-
    10  ties,  including  by  ensuring meaningful opportunities for public input
    11  and involvement.
    12    4. The department [and office shall prepare a  draft  plan  and  shall
    13  propose no later than July first, two thousand twenty-two, a schedule of
    14  public hearings thereon.
    15    5.  On or before July first, two thousand twenty-three and every three
    16  years thereafter, the department and office shall submit  the  plan  and
    17  any  recommendations  to  the  governor  and legislature] shall post the
    18  draft strategies and methodology developed to meet  the  goal  no  later
    19  than  July  first, two thousand twenty-four and hold at least one public
    20  hearing thereon. The department shall post the final goal strategies and
    21  methodology on its website.
    22    5. The department shall maintain and, at least  annually,  update  its
    23  website  to  provide  information  with regard to the implementation and
    24  status of the goal.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04028-01-3
        S. 2222                             2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
     2  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2022 amending the environmental
     3  conservation law relating to setting conservation goals  for  the  state
     4  and  including  efforts to combat the biodiversity and climate crises in
     5  the  state's  land  acquisition policy, as proposed in legislative bills
     6  numbers S. 6191-A and A. 5390-B, takes effect.