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2021 SESSION
HB 2074 Environmental justice; interagency working group.
Introduced by: Shelly A. Simonds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Environmental justice; interagency working group. Establishes the Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group as an advisory council in the executive branch of state government to further environmental justice in the Commonwealth and directs each of the Governor's Secretaries to designate at least one environmental justice coordinator to represent the secretariat as a member of the Working Group. The bill directs the Working Group to focus its work during its first year on the environmental justice of current air quality monitoring practices in Virginia and provides that the Working Group shall expire on July 1, 2031.
The bill directs each state agency to adopt an agency-specific environmental justice policy that requires an evaluation of the environmental justice consequences of any covered agency action, requires a consideration of the environmental justice consequences or cumulative impacts of the administration of regulations, and contains other features, including public participation plans for residents of environmental justice communities and fenceline communities potentially affected by a covered agency action.
Finally, the bill requires each local government adopting or reviewing a comprehensive plan to consider identifying certain environmental justice communities, objectives, and policies.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102822D pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103839D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104161D-H2 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102822D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/21 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
- 01/27/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/27/21 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/27/21 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (16-Y 6-N)
- 01/27/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103839D-H1
- 01/27/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/27/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/02/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104161D-H2
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources substitute rejected 21103839D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 21104161D-H2
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2074H2
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House (56-Y 44-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)