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]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Senate Rules Committee Vote	2019-06-19	19	0	0	0	19	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage	2019-06-19	62	0	0	0	62	Passed	Link	View
Assembly	Assembly Ways And Means Committee: Favorable	2019-05-14	22	10	0	3	35	Passed	Link	View
Assembly	Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means	2019-02-05	22	6	0	2	30	Passed	Link	View

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