BILL NO | A03063 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S01525
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SPONSOR | Peoples-Stokes |
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COSPNSR | Rosenthal, Gottfried, Titus, Perry, Colton, Otis, Walker, Dinowitz, Thiele, Santabarbara, Fahy,
Kavanagh |
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MLTSPNSR | Galef, Skartados |
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Add Art 48 SS48-0101 - 48-0113, En Con L |
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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. |