BILL NO A08490A
SAME AS No same as
SPONSOR Peoples-Stokes
COSPNSR Rosenthal
MLTSPNSR Ball, Latimer
Add Art 48 SS48-0101 - 48-0113, En Con L
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; provides that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice
policy applicable to state agencies, monitor agencies on compliance with such
policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an
environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
