S 40 · in committee · significant
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
- civil rights
What this bill does
- Creates a commission to study slavery, government support for it, and discrimination against African Americans.
- Affects African Americans and the federal government, which must appoint commission members.
- Commission has one year to submit recommendations on reparations, apologies, and remedies.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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What specific evidence should the commission prioritize when documenting how federal policies supported slavery and discrimination against African Americans?
- 02
How might the commission's one-year timeline affect the depth and comprehensiveness of studying centuries of slavery and discriminatory policies?
- 03
Beyond studying the problem, what types of remedies is your community most interested in seeing the commission recommend?
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Sponsor · D-NJ
Cory A. Booker
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
19/ 100
Senators cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-01-09
Joining the bill
Elizabeth Warren
D-MA · original
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-RI · original
Richard Blumenthal
D-CT · original
Richard J. Durbin
D-IL · original
Tammy Duckworth
D-IL · original
Mazie K. Hirono
D-HI · original
Andy Kim
D-NJ · original
Edward J. Markey
D-MA · original
Patty Murray
D-WA · original
Jeff Merkley
D-OR · original
Alex Padilla
D-CA · original
Bernard Sanders
I-VT · original
+ 7 more
Legislative timeline
2025-01-09 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-01-09 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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