Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Assembly Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Dec 2019
Introduced Jan 24, 2019
Signed Dec 23, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 19, 2019 · Assembly Jun 20, 2019
How they voted
61–0
Passed
Total votes 61
Jun 19, 2019
D
Democratic39
100% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
13
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Dec 23, 2019
Signed into law
SIGNED CHAP.735
upper
Jun 20, 2019
Lower · Passed
PASSED ASSEMBLY
lower
Jun 19, 2019
Committee
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
lower
Jun 19, 2019
Upper · Passed
PASSED SENATE
upper
Jun 19, 2019
Committee
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
upper
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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