Assembly Bill A10239

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive environmentally conscious planning training

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A10239 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8931
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §239-c, Gen Muni L; amd §§27 & 81, Gen City L; amd §§267 & 271, Town L; amd §§7-712 & 7-718, Vil L

2023-A10239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

2023-A10239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10239
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Clark) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the  general  city  law,  the
   town law, and the village law, in relation to requiring certain munic-
   ipal  planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive environ-
   mentally conscious planning training

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (d) of subdivision 2 of
 section 239-c of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 662 of
 the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) Each member of a county planning board shall complete, at a  mini-
 mum,  [four]  FIVE  hours  of training each year designed to enable such
 members to more effectively carry out their duties. Training received by
 a member in excess of [four] FIVE hours in  any  one  year,  EXCEPT  FOR
 ENVIRONMENTALLY  CONSCIOUS PLANNING TRAINING, may be carried over by the
 member into succeeding years in order to meet the requirements  of  this
 paragraph.  Such  training  shall  be  approved  by  the  county and may
 include, but not be limited to, training provided by a regional or coun-
 ty planning office or  commission,  county  planning  federation,  state
 agency,  statewide municipal association, college or other similar enti-
 ty.  TRAINING SHALL INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE HOUR RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTALLY
 CONSCIOUS PLANNING, INCLUDING, BUT NOT TO BE  LIMITED  TO,  TRAINING  TO
 MEET  THE GOALS OF AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE CLIMATE LEADERSHIP AND COMMU-
 NITY PROTECTION ACT, INCLUDING ANY GRANT AND FUNDING  OPPORTUNITIES  FOR
 COUNTIES,  FARMLAND  AND NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE JUSTICE,
 ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS SITE DESIGN, BUILDING MATERIAL TECHNIQUES  AND
 WATER  MITIGATION  AND  ENERGY  SYSTEMS  BEST PRACTICES. Training may be
 provided in a variety of formats, including but not  limited  to,  elec-
 tronic  media, video, distance learning and traditional classroom train-
 ing.
   § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 7-a of section 27 of the general  city
 law,  as added by chapter 662 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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