H.3198 is currently awaiting a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee. It can be taken up during the 2024 legislative session.
H.3198 would create the “Justice Forty Oversight Committee” to study opportunities to address the issue of environmental justice through targeted efforts in certain communities, to instruct the composition of the committee, and to ensure the committee will submit recommendations to the White House to draw down funding from the federal government to address the issues the Committee identifies and includes in its final report.
The bill ensures the final report shall be submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council by December 31, 2024, at which time the study committee shall dissolve.
South Carolina Sierra Club
Please contact your member of the SC state House of Representatives and ask them to support this legislation.
This is a SC Sierra Club priority.