Assembly Bill A3939

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the Amistad Commission

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A3939 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Arts and Cultural Affairs Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§57.52 & 57.53, Arts & Cul L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8328
2019-2020: A10052
2021-2022: A6031

2023-A3939 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the Amistad commission; moves it from the department of state to the state education department.

2023-A3939 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3939
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to the
   Amistad Commission
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  57.52  of  the arts and cultural affairs law, as
 added by chapter 404 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   § 57.52. Amistad commission; established. 1.  The  Amistad  commission
 (commission), so named in honor of the group of enslaved Africans led by
 Joseph  Cinque  who, while being transported in eighteen hundred thirty-
 nine on a vessel named the Amistad, gained  their  freedom  after  over-
 throwing  the  crew and eventually having their case successfully argued
 before the United States Supreme Court, is  hereby  created  and  estab-
 lished.  The commission shall consist of nineteen members, including the
 secretary of state or his or her designee, the commissioner of education
 or his or her designee, and the chancellor of the  state  university  of
 New  York or his or her designee, serving ex officio, and sixteen public
 members. Public members shall be appointed  as  follows:    four  public
 members,  no more than two of whom shall be of the same political party,
 shall be appointed by the temporary president of the senate; four public
 members, no more than two of whom shall be of the same political  party,
 shall  be  appointed  by  the  speaker of the assembly; and eight public
 members, no more than four of whom shall be of the same political party,
 shall be appointed by the governor. TO THE EXTENT  PRACTICAL,  APPOINTED
 MEMBERS  SHALL  BE  CHOSEN WITH DUE REGARD TO BROAD ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND
 SHALL HAVE A DEMONSTRATED EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY  OF  THE
 AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY IN AMERICA OR THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AFRI-
 CAN-AMERICANS  TO  OUR SOCIETY. The public members shall be residents of
 the state, chosen with due regard to broad geographic representation and
 ethnic diversity, who have an interest in the  history  of  the  African
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03512-02-3
              

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