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New York State Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation Bill Files


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This series consists of meeting and bill files of the Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation. The meeting files include clerk's reports; voting sheets; a final report summarizing action taken on all bills referred to the committee in 1989; and log and status sheets giving bill number, sponsor, subject, committee action, senate bill number and sponsor, and notes. Bill files typically include the bill; memorandum in support of legislation; committee bill and other legislative memoranda; and correspondence offering an opinion.
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Bill files
Quantity:

6 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1983-1989
Series Number:
L0186

Arrangement

Bill files: Numerical by Assembly bill number.

Meeting files: Chronological by meeting date.

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.

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