117th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 40Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act

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.

Civil rights and liberties, minority issues
Introduced Jan 25, 2021
Last action Jan 25, 2021
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Jan 25, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Jan 25, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.