---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group"
description: "Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 2385"
citation: "New York S 2385 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["PARKER"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68a09989-0cd7-4c53-a02c-b8da6af23f80"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2385"
source_hash: "16a0a4ae0a5a679ebfad55eb789d31322102a721319935c4595421c60cc1710a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 2385 (2019-2020) — Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group

Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S2385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2385&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **117–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- PARKER — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-24** REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1677
- **2019-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1564
- **2019-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.325
- **2019-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-12-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-12-23** SIGNED CHAP.735 `executive-signature`
- **2019-12-23** APPROVAL MEMO.81

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68a09989-0cd7-4c53-a02c-b8da6af23f80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).