Roll Call: NY A01564 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly
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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 [A01564 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
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 [A01564 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Vote: Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means
Vote | Tally | Democrat | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Yea | 22 | 22 | - |
Nay | 6 | - | 6 |
Not Voting | - | - | - |
Absent | 2 | - | 2 |
TOTAL | 30 | 22 | 8 |