STATE OF NEW YORK
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2847
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA, COOK -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the
university at Buffalo institute for African American studies; and
making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 5 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 part 1-B to read as follows:
3 PART 1-B
4 THE INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
5 Section 244-a. The university at Buffalo institute for African American
6 studies.
7 244-b. Purposes of the institute for African American studies.
8 244-c. Funding and reporting.
9 § 244-a. The university at Buffalo institute for African American
10 studies. The university at Buffalo institute for African American
11 studies is hereby established under the jurisdiction of the state
12 university of New York. The institute for African American studies shall
13 be administered as a program of the state university in accordance with
14 the policies of the trustees of the state university.
15 § 244-b. Purposes of the institute for African American studies. The
16 purposes of the institute for African American studies shall be to:
17 1. Provide an educational setting for students, scholars and practi-
18 tioners to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual
19 collaborations focusing on peoples of American and African descent, and
20 their relations to each other.
21 2. Address contemporary issues that confront peoples of American and
22 African descent.
23 3. Conduct interdisciplinary and regional studies to address public
24 policy, create models and provide outreach into the community.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 4. Sponsor lectures, conferences, workshops and publications related
2 to African American issues.
3 § 244-c. Funding and reporting. Funds shall be made available for the
4 support of the institute for African American studies in the amounts
5 appropriated for this purpose. The university at Buffalo institute for
6 African American studies shall annually submit a complete and detailed
7 report setting forth its operations and accomplishments to the chancel-
8 lor of the state university, the president of the state university at
9 Buffalo, the director of the budget, and the chairs of the senate high-
10 er education committee, the senate finance committee, the assembly high-
11 er education committee and the assembly ways and means committee.
12 § 2. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much
13 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the university at
14 Buffalo institute for African American studies out of any moneys in the
15 state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes
16 account, not otherwise appropriated. Such moneys shall be payable on the
17 audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved
18 by the president of the state university at Buffalo.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
