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Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #269 (YEAS 38 to NAYS 0)

S2196  ·  Senate roll call No. 269  ·  2017-11-08  ·  190th General Court (2017 to 2018)
38 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 1, moved by Senate Committee on Ways and Means  ·  Adopted

An Act providing for the establishment of a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change

SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after chapter 21O the following chapter:- CHAPTER 21P. COMPREHENSIVE ADAPTATION MANAGEMENT PLAN TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE. Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Adaptation”, a response and process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects that seeks to increase the resiliency and reduce the vulnerability of the commonwealth’s built and natural environments and seeks to moderate or avoid harm or exploit beneficial opportunities to reduce the safety and health risks that vulnerable human populations and…

yea · 38

absent · 1

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.