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S00030 Summary:

BILL NOS00030 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05610

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSR

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Rpld Art 57-B, Arts & Cul L; add Art 25 §§1301 - 1306, amd §801, Ed L

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Allocates the Amistad commission to work alongside the department of education and on behalf of students in the state; repeals certain provisions relating to the Amistad commission; requires schools in the state to provide curriculum relating to Black history, slavery, and race.

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BILL NOS00030 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 30

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allocating the Amistad
 commission to work alongside the department of education and on behalf
 of students in New York state; and to repeal certain provisions of the
 arts and cultural affairs law relating to the Amistad commission

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 57-B of the arts and cultural affairs law is
 2 REPEALED.
 3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new article 25 to read
 4 as follows:
 5 ARTICLE 25
 6 THE AMISTAD COMMISSION
 7 Section 1301. Legislative findings.
 8 1302. Definitions
 9 1303. Commission established.
 10 1304. Commission duties and responsibilities.
 11 1305. Curriculum.
 12 1306. Authorization.
 13 § 1301. Legislative findings. The legislature finds and declares that:
 14 1. During the period beginning late in the fifteenth century through
 15 the nineteenth century, millions of persons of African origin were
 16 enslaved and brought to the Western Hemisphere, including the United
 17 States of America; of the 12.5 million enslaved Africans brought, 10.7
 18 million survived the middle passage or approximately 20% perished during
 19 their journey to the Western hemisphere. The enslavement of Africans and
 20 their descendants was part of a concerted effort of physical and psycho-
 21 logical terror that deprived groups of people of African descent the
 22 opportunity to preserve many of their economic, social, religious, poli-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00149-01-5

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 1 tical and other customs; the vestiges of slavery in this country contin-
 2 ued with the legalization of second class citizenship status for Afri-
 3 can-Americans through from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 until the
 4 Civil Rights Era that spanned the 1950s through 1968, including Jim Crow
 5 laws, segregation and other similar practices; the legacy of slavery has
 6 pervaded the fabric of our society; and in spite of these events there
 7 are endless examples of the influence of the history of Africans on the
 8 cultural, economic, political and social foundation of the United
 9 States, the Americas and the economies, politics and societies of Europe
 10 and beyond. The enduring legacy of chattel slavery in the United States
 11 and the Americas, including the social construct created and cemented by
 12 the biological myth of race and the resulting inequities and injustices
 13 stemming from racism. That was challenged by the perseverance, activism
 14 and aforementioned contributions of the enslaved Africans, their
 15 descendants and stakeholders, throughout history.
 16 2. We should know of and remember the human carnage and dehumanizing
 17 atrocities committed during the period of the African slave trade and
 18 slavery in America and of the vestiges of slavery in this country; and
 19 it is in fact vital to educate our citizens on these events, the legacy
 20 of slavery, the sad history of racism in this country, and on the prin-
 21 ciples of human rights and dignity in a civilized society.
 22 3. It is the policy of the state of New York that Black hi