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Assembly Bill A8328

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the Amistad Commission

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2017-A8328 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6323
Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Arts and Cultural Affairs Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §57.52, Arts & Cul L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10052, S6445
2021-2022: A6031, S1924
2023-2024: A3939, S1032
2025-2026: A5468, S3161

2017-A8328 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A8328 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8328
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 8, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- 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. Subdivisions 1 and 4 of  section  57.52  of  the  arts  and
 cultural  affairs  law, as added by chapter 404 of the laws of 2005, are
 amended to read as follows:
   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 overthrowing the crew and  eventually  having  their
 case  successfully  argued  before  the  United States Supreme Court, is
 hereby created and established. The commission shall consist of nineteen
 members, including the [secretary of state] COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION or
 his or her designee, the [commissioner of education] SECRETARY OF  STATE
 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. The public members shall be resi-
 dents of the state, chosen with due regard to broad geographic represen-
 tation and ethnic diversity, who have an interest in the history of  the
 African  slave  trade  and  slavery  in America and the contributions of
 African-Americans to our society.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11725-01-7

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