Research

Scope and Content Note

L0186-92: This accretion consists of meeting and bill files of the Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation for 1989.

The meeting files consist of clerk's reports and voting sheets for 18 meetings dating from January 24 to June 26, 1989. Also included is a final report summarizing the action taken on all bills referred to the committee in 1989; copies of letters sent to committee members stating the meeting dates at which they were marked absent; and log and status sheets giving bill number, sponsor, subject, committee action, senate bill number and sponsor, and notes.

The bill files typically include: a copy of the bill; memorandum in support of legislation (required by Assembly rules) giving purpose, summary, and justification for the bill; committee bill memorandum giving: bill number(s); sponsor(s); subject and purpose; summary of provisions; effective date; legislative history; arguments in support and opposition; and fiscal implications; and other legislative memoranda and (rarely) correspondence from interested parties requesting copies of the bill or offering an opinion.