Environmental Quality, Department of; definition of environmental justice.
Summary
Department of Environmental Quality; environmentaljustice. Provides that one of the purposes of the Departmentof Environmental Quality is to further environmental justice, asdefined in the bill.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 25, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
30
Key actions
8
Committee
7
Amendments
3
Mar 25, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 454 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 26, 2020
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (53-Y 43-N)
lower
Feb 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 19-N)
upper
Feb 24, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Feb 24, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 21, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (8-Y 6-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101702D
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Ibraheem S. Samirah
DDemocratic
Co
Shelly Simonds
DDemocratic
Co
Suhas Subramanyam
DDemocratic
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