Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period indicating such material was stolen

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Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period indicating such material was stolen

Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period indicating such material was stolen 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.

What This Bill Does

• Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period indicating such material was stolen 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.

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Official Summary Text

Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period indicating such material was stolen
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.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8192

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 5, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        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
          1850, 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 SHALL, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, PROMINENTLY PLACE A
     7  PLACARD OR OTHER SIGNAGE ACKNOWLEDGING SUCH INFORMATION ALONG WITH  SUCH
     8  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.
                                                                   LBD11850-01-5