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Assembly Bill A8192B

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires signage be placed alongside cultural materials stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period, with its peak between 1700 and 1870, indicating such material was stolen

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2025-A8192 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §233-aa, Ed L

2025-A8192 - Summary

Requires signage be placed alongside cultural materials, including artwork and artifacts 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 cultural material was stolen.

2025-A8192 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   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:
 
   Section 1. Section 233-aa of the education law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16.  EVERY  MUSEUM  WHICH  HAS ON DISPLAY SIXTEENTH THROUGH NINETEENTH
 CENTURY ART AND WHICH CHANGED HANDS DUE TO THEFT, SEIZURE, CONFISCATION,
 FORCED SALE OR OTHER INVOLUNTARY MEANS IN AFRICA DURING THE  TRANSATLAN-
 TIC  SLAVE  PERIOD SHALL, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, PROMINENTLY PLACE A
 PLACARD OR OTHER SIGNAGE ACKNOWLEDGING SUCH INFORMATION ALONG WITH  SUCH
 DISPLAY.
   § 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

2025-A8192A - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §233-aa, Ed L

2025-A8192A - Summary

Requires signage be placed alongside cultural materials, including artwork and artifacts 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 cultural material was stolen.

2025-A8192A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8192--A
 
                        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 -- recommitted  to  the
   Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development in accordance
   with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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
   1870, indicating such art was stolen
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 233-aa of the education law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16.  EVERY  MUSEUM  WHICH  HAS ON DISPLAY SIXTEENTH THROUGH NINETEENTH
 CENTURY ART AND WHICH CHANGED HANDS DUE TO THEFT, SEIZURE, CONFISCATION,
 FORCED SALE OR OTHER INVOLUNTARY MEANS IN AFRICA DURING THE  TRANSATLAN-
 TIC  SLAVE  PERIOD, WITH ITS PEAK BETWEEN SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
 SEVENTY, SHALL, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, PROMINENTLY PLACE  A  PLACARD
 OR OTHER SIGNAGE ACKNOWLEDGING SUCH INFORMATION ALONG WITH SUCH DISPLAY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11850-02-6

2025-A8192B (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §233-aa, Ed L

2025-A8192B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires signage be placed alongside cultural materials, including artwork and artifacts 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 cultural material was stolen.

2025-A8192B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8192--B
 
                        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 -- recommitted  to  the
   Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development in accordance
   with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
   again  reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  signage  be
   placed  alongside  cultural materials, including artwork and artifacts
   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 cultural material was stolen
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 233-aa of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. EVERY MUSEUM WHICH HAS ON  DISPLAY  SIXTEENTH  THROUGH  NINETEENTH
 CENTURY  CULTURAL  MATERIALS,  INCLUDING  ARTWORKS  AND  ARTIFACTS  THAT
 CHANGED HANDS IN AFRICA, THE UNITED  STATES,  OR  ELSEWHERE  DURING  THE
 TRANSATLANTIC  SLAVE  PERIOD  OR DURING THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE PERIOD,
 THROUGH THEFT, SEIZURE, CONFISCATION, FORCED SALE, OR OTHER  INVOLUNTARY
 MEANS  AND/OR  WHICH  IS  COMPOSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF METAL OR OTHER
 MATERIAL EXCHANGED FOR ENSLAVED HUMAN CAPTIVES,  INDICATING  SUCH  ARTI-
 FACTS  WERE  STOLEN  AND/OR  MADE  WITH MATERIALS EXCHANGED FOR ENSLAVED
 CAPTIVES SOLD INTO THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE OR THE  DOMESTIC  SLAVE
 TRADE,  SHALL,  TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, PROMINENTLY DISPLAY A PLACARD
 OR OTHER SIGNAGE ACKNOWLEDGING SUCH PROVENANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11850-03-6

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