Requires signage be placed alongside art stolen during the Transatlantic Slave period between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak between 1700 and 1870, indicating such art was stolen.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8192--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development -- recommitted to the
Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring signage be
placed alongside art stolen during the Transatlantic Slave period
between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak between 1700 and
1870, indicating such art was stolen
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 233-aa of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
3 16. Every museum which has on display sixteenth through nineteenth
4 century art and which changed hands due to theft, seizure, confiscation,
5 forced sale or other involuntary means in Africa during the Transatlan-
6 tic Slave period, with its peak between seventeen hundred and eighteen
7 seventy, shall, to the extent practicable, prominently place a placard
8 or other signage acknowledging such information along with such display.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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