Assembly Bill A9015

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Reconvenes the New York state sea level rise task force

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Current Bill Status Via S8110 - Passed Assembly


  • 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-A9015 (ACTIVE) - Details

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S8110
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation

2023-A9015 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reconvenes the New York state sea level rise task force to review the report and recommendations previously issued by the task force, and to determine the progress made in effectuating such recommendations and what recommendations require additional efforts; develop an updated evaluation of ways of protecting New York's remaining coastal ecosystems and natural habitats, and increasing coastal community resilience in the face of sea level rise, applying the best available science as to sea level rise and its anticipated impacts; and updating previous recommendations and, if appropriate, making new recommendations on sea level rise resiliency.

2023-A9015 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9015
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT reconvening the New York state sea level  rise  task  force;  and
   providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. 1. New York state sea level rise task force. There is here-
 by reconvened, within the department of environmental conservation,  the
 sea  level  rise task force ("task force") established by chapter 613 of
 the laws of 2007, which  shall  consist  of  16  members  who  shall  be
 appointed as follows:
   (a) the commissioner of environmental conservation or their designee;
   (b) the secretary of state or their designee;
   (c) the commissioner of transportation or their designee;
   (d) the commissioner of health or their designee;
   (e)  the  director  of  the state emergency management office or their
 designee;
   (f) the superintendent of insurance or their designee;
   (g) two members to be appointed by  the  temporary  president  of  the
 senate;
   (h) two members to be appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
   (i) one member to be appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
   (j) one member to be appointed by the minority leader of the assembly;
   (k) one member to be appointed by the mayor of the city of New York;
   (l)  one  member to be appointed by the county executive of the county
 of Westchester;
   (m) one member to be appointed by the county executive of  the  county
 of Nassau; and
   (n)  one  member to be appointed by the county executive of the county
 of Suffolk.
   2. The at large members shall have expertise in one  or  more  of  the
 following  areas:   climatology; hydrology; economics; marine fisheries;
 law enforcement and emergency management; estuary programs; oceanography
 or coastal ocean science; ecology or  environmental  biology;  resilient
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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