Bill > S1083

Introduced Session

A bill to address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes. This bill establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. Among other requirements, the commission shall examine (1) the role of federal and state governments in supporting the institution of slavery, (2) forms of discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed slaves and their descendants, and (3) lingering negative effects of slavery on living African-Americans and society.

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Cory Booker (D)*,  Michael Bennet (D),  Richard Blumenthal (D),  Sherrod Brown (D),  Ben Cardin (D),  Bob Casey (D),  Chris Coons (D),  Tammy Duckworth (D),  Dick Durbin (D),  Dianne Feinstein (D),  Kirsten Gillibrand (D),  Kamala Harris (D),  Mazie Hirono (D),  Tim Kaine (D),  Amy Klobuchar (D),  Ed Markey (D),  Jeff Merkley (D),  Patty Murray (D),  Bernie Sanders (I),  Chris Van Hollen (D),  Elizabeth Warren (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (on 04/09/2019)

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