Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts, including art and artifacts created using metal materials used in the exchange for enslaved human captives, which were stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period, between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak between 1700 and 1870, indicating such information.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10107--A
IN SENATE
April 29, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- 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 cultural materials, including artwork and artifacts
stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave
trade period, between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak
between 1700 and 1870, indicating such cultural material was stolen
and/or made with materials used in the exchange for enslaved human
captives
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 identifiable works of art and
4 artifacts, including such identifiable works of art and artifacts
5 created using metal materials used in the exchange for enslaved human
6 captives, known to have been created before nineteen hundred, that
7 changed hands due to theft, seizure, confiscation, forced sale or other
8 involuntary means in Africa or the United States during the transatlan-
9 tic slave period, through reconstruction (fifteen hundred -- eighteen
10 hundred seventy-seven) shall, to the extent practicable, prominently
11 place a placard or other signage acknowledging such information along
12 with such display.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11850-08-6
