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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   public  awareness and involvement in the thirty by thirty conservation
   plan
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 of section 49-0113 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as amended by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2022
 amending  the environmental conservation law relating to setting conser-
 vation goals for the state and including efforts to combat the biodiver-
 sity and climate crises in  the  state's  land  acquisition  policy,  as
 proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  6191-A and A. 5390-B, are
 amended to read as follows:
   3. Conservation measures shall be undertaken in ways  that  serve  all
 communities, including low-income, disadvantaged and vulnerable communi-
 ties,  INCLUDING  BY  ENSURING MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC INPUT
 AND INVOLVEMENT.
   4. The department [and office shall prepare a  draft  plan  and  shall
 propose no later than July first, two thousand twenty-two, a schedule of
 public hearings thereon.
   5.  On or before July first, two thousand twenty-three and every three
 years thereafter, the department and office shall submit  the  plan  and
 any  recommendations  to  the  governor  and legislature] SHALL POST THE
 DRAFT STRATEGIES AND METHODOLOGY DEVELOPED TO MEET  THE  GOAL  NO  LATER
 THAN  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR AND HOLD AT LEAST ONE PUBLIC
 HEARING THEREON. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL POST THE FINAL GOAL STRATEGIES AND
 METHODOLOGY ON ITS WEBSITE.
   5. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAINTAIN AND, AT LEAST  ANNUALLY,  UPDATE  ITS
 WEBSITE  TO  PROVIDE  INFORMATION  WITH REGARD TO THE IMPLEMENTATION AND
 STATUS OF THE GOAL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2022 amending the environmental
 conservation law relating to setting conservation goals  for  the  state
 and  including  efforts to combat the biodiversity and climate crises in
 the  state's  land  acquisition policy, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 6191-A and A. 5390-B, takes effect.