Bill > HB1266

This bill, the "Environmental Justice Act", aims to address environmental injustices and disproportionate impacts on certain communities in Colorado. The key provisions include: - Establishing an Environmental Justice Action Task Force to recommend strategies for incorporating environmental justice and equity into state agency actions. - Requiring state agencies to meaningfully engage disproportionately impacted communities, defined as those with high percentages of low-income, minority, or housing cost-burdened households, when proposing regulations or actions that could affect those communities. - Creating an Environmental Justice Ombudsperson position and Environmental Justice Advisory Board to advocate for disproportionately impacted communities and improve communication between those communities and the state. - Establishing a grant program funded by penalties and fines collected for environmental violations to support environmental mitigation projects in disproportionately impacted communities. - Requiring the Air Quality Control Commission to adopt comprehensive rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, the industrial/manufacturing sector, and electricity generation in order to protect disproportionately impacted communities. The bill also makes various appropriations from the General Fund and a new Community Impact Cash Fund to support the implementation of these provisions.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Budget and Finance

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1266