Votes: NY A02261 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts "private environmental law enforcement act"; authorizes any private citizen who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected to commence civil judicial actions for injunctive or declaratory relief to remedy environmental harms under certain circumstances; provides that such action may be commenced against any person for any violation of an administrative or court order compelling an investigation or remediation of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - ordered to third reading cal.101 [A02261 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Voting Records

ChamberVoteDateYeaNayNVAbsTotalResultSourceView
AssemblyAssembly Codes Committee: Favorable2021-03-241660022PassedLinkView
AssemblyAssembly Environmental Conservation Committee: Favorable refer to committee Codes2021-03-162090130PassedLinkView


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