New York Senate Bill 2385 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on December 23 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.81
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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.

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.

Sen. Kevin Parker [D]	Sen. Joseph Addabbo [D]	Sen. David Carlucci [D]	Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal [D]
Sen. Rachel May [D]	Sen. Jen Metzger [D]	Sen. Jose Serrano [D]

2019-06-20 - Assembly - Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage (Y: 117 N: 30 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2019-06-19 - Senate - Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage (Y: 62 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-06-19 - Senate - Senate Rules Committee Vote (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-12-23	Assembly	APPROVAL MEMO.81
2019-12-23	Assembly	SIGNED CHAP.735
2019-12-20	Senate	DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2019-06-20	Assembly	returned to senate
2019-06-20	Assembly	passed assembly
2019-06-20	Assembly	ordered to third reading cal.325
2019-06-20	Assembly	substituted for a1564
2019-06-19	Assembly	referred to ways and means
2019-06-19	Senate	DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2019-06-19	Senate	PASSED SENATE
2019-06-19	Senate	ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1677
2019-06-19	Senate	COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2019-01-24	Senate	REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

A01564 (Same As) 2019-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.81

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2385
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02385&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S02385
Roll Call	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2385#SC1
Roll Call	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2385#SF1
Roll Call	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02385&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#AF1