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Amd §75-0117, En Con L
Relates to the investment of funds to combat climate change to provide forty percent of overall benefits of spending on clean energy and energy efficiency programs, projects or investments in the areas of housing, workforce development, pollution reduction, low income energy assistance, energy, transportation and economic development to disadvantaged communities.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7736
SPONSOR: Englebright TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the environmental conservation, in relation to the
investment of funds to combat climate change
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
To ensure that forty percent of overall benefits from the New York State
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act are provided to disad-
vantaged communities.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation would modify the investment of funds provision of the
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to ensure that
forty percent of overall benefits of spending on CLCPA projects and
programs are provided to disadvantaged communities.
This legislation would take effect immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
The bill will help improve financial parity for disadvantaged communi-
ties. In the United States disadvantaged communities are least likely to
have access to clean energy infrastructure and investments in the areas
of housing, workforce development, pollution reduction, low income ener-
gy assistance, energy, transportation and economic development. The
pandemic has highlighted pervasive problems posed by systemic inequal-
ity.
Providing forty percent of overall benefit to disadvantaged communities
from the investment of funds from the CLCPA will work to solve long-
standing energy and health challenges faced by disadvantaged communi-
ties. This modification to the Climate Leadership and Community
Protection Act will enable New York State to continue to lead the way in
protecting our communities, our economy and our state.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This legislation would take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7736
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation, in relation to the
investment of funds to combat climate change
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 75-0117 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 75-0117. Investment of funds.
4 State agencies, authorities and entities, in consultation with the
5 environmental justice working group and the climate action council,
6 shall, to the extent practicable, invest or direct available and rele-
7 vant programmatic resources [in a manner designed] to [achieve a goal
8 for disadvantaged communities to receive] provide forty percent of over-
9 all benefits of spending on clean energy and energy efficiency programs,
10 projects or investments in the areas of housing, workforce development,
11 pollution reduction, low income energy assistance, energy, transporta-
12 tion and economic development[, provided however, that disadvantaged
13 communities shall receive no less than thirty-five percent of the over-
14 all benefits of spending on clean energy and energy efficiency programs,
15 projects or investments and provided further that this section shall not
16 alter funds already contracted or committed as of the effective date of
17 this section] to disadvantaged communities.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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