Senate Bill S2951

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the investment of public pension funds in entities doing business in Sudan

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions 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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2009-S2951 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3806
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §177-e, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3932, A4183
2013-2014: S2978, A3647

2009-S2951 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the investment of public pension funds in entities doing business in Sudan.

2009-S2951 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2951 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2951

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
  prohibiting the investment of public pension funds in any entity doing
  business in Sudan

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

  Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature  finds  and  declares
that:
  a.  It  is  deeply  concerned  over the poor human rights situation in
Sudan, calls for stepped-up international efforts to end the  crisis  in
Sudan's  Darfur  region  and concurs with United States policy which has
officially declared that genocide is ongoing in Sudan;
  b. Despite significant pressure from the United States government, the
government of Sudan has not taken all the necessary actions to  disasso-
ciate itself fully from its ties to terrorism;
  c.  The government of Sudan places severe limitations on the political
and religious freedoms  of  the  Sudanese  people  despite  promises  of
improvement and pledges to end the 20-year civil war between the govern-
ment and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army;
  d.  The  government of Sudan 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 people
displaced;
  e. 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;
  f. Severe restrictions are placed on the freedoms of assembly, associ-
ation, movement, and speech and  the  government  actively  censors  the
press;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06284-01-9

              

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