A 476 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive environmentally conscious planning training

Summary

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026

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What changed between versions

A476 → A476A · 5 edits

MODERATE

This bill amends training requirements for municipal planning and zoning officials in New York, updating how environmental training topics are listed and clarifying formatting. The substantive policy content regarding training hours and topics remains largely unchanged, with minor reorganization of text.

TECHNICAL

Bill number and versioning updated from A476 to A476A to reflect committee action and amendments.

Committee status updated to show the bill was discharged, amended, reprinted, and recommitted.

Minor text reorganization in training requirement sections, moving 'grant and funding opportunities' to appear before specific topics for better readability.

Formatting correction in Town Law section where 'four' was bracketed and changed to 'five' hours of annual training.

Page numbering and document metadata updated to reflect amended version.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 476A

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

lower

Jan 8, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors