Assembly Bill A3516

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance to divest state employee benefit funds from businesses in or associated with Sudan

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  • 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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2009-A3516 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง98-aa, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3280
2013-2014: A4728
2015-2016: A6648
2017-2018: A905
2019-2020: A477

2009-A3516 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance to divest state employee benefit funds from businesses in or associated with Sudan.

2009-A3516 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  3516

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY, ALFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BARRA, BENJAMIN, BRENNAN, CLARK, COOK, FARRELL,  GANTT,  GLICK,  GOTT-
  FRIED,  GREENE,  HOOPER,  HOYT,  LATIMER,  McENENY,  MILLMAN, PHEFFER,
  J. RIVERA, SCHROEDER, SWEENEY, TOWNS, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Governmental Employees

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the investment  of
  certain  public  employee retirement funds in companies doing business
  in Sudan; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
  tion thereof

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Legislative  findings  and declaration.   The legislature
finds that increased international efforts to end the crisis in  Sudan's
Darfur  region  must  be taken and concurs with the United States policy
which has officially declared that genocide is  ongoing  in  the  Sudan.
The legislature makes the following additional findings that:
  (1)  Significant  pressure  from  the United States government has not
convinced the Sudanese government to disassociate  itself  from  certain
repressive and terrorist factions;
  (2) The Sudanese government places severe limitations on the political
and  religious  freedoms  of  the  Sudanese  people despite promises and
pledges to end the twenty year civil war between the government and  the
Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army;
  (3)  The Sudanese government violates the rules of war by deliberately
attacking civilians and, since 1983, the war and famine-related  effects
have led to more than two million deaths and over four million refugees;
  (4)  The  government of Sudan continues to engage in arbitrary arrest,
prolonged detention, extra-judicial killings, torture and  rape  of  the
Sudanese people and apostasy from Islam is punishable by death;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01917-01-9

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