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| 1 | + | Amended IN Senate May 06, 2024 Amended IN Senate April 03, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1331Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 16, 2024An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1331, as amended, Bradford. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice.Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Forces findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law establishes the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and requires the Controller to make, among other transfers between that fund and the General Fund, a transfer from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties of the unencumbered balance in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified.This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 3 | + | Amended IN Senate May 06, 2024 Amended IN Senate April 03, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1331Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 16, 2024An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1331, as amended, Bradford. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice.Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Forces findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law establishes the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and requires the Controller to make, among other transfers between that fund and the General Fund, a transfer from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties of the unencumbered balance in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified.This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO | |
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| 11 | 10 | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION | |
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| 15 | 14 | No. 1331 | |
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| 17 | 16 | Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 16, 2024 | |
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| 19 | 18 | Introduced by Senator Bradford | |
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| 22 | 21 | An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, relating to state government. | |
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| 24 | 23 | LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 26 | 25 | ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 28 | 27 | SB 1331, as amended, Bradford. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice. | |
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| 30 | - | Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Forces findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law establishes the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and requires the Controller to make, among other transfers between that fund and the General Fund, a transfer from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties of the unencumbered balance in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified.This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. | |
| 29 | + | Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Forces findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law establishes the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and requires the Controller to make, among other transfers between that fund and the General Fund, a transfer from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties of the unencumbered balance in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified.This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. | |
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| 32 | 31 | Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Forces findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified. | |
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| 34 | 33 | Existing law establishes the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and requires the Controller to make, among other transfers between that fund and the General Fund, a transfer from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties of the unencumbered balance in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified. | |
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| 38 | - | This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. | |
| 35 | + | This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose. The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. | |
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| 44 | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b)The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) | |
| 41 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 46 | 43 | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 48 | 45 | ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 50 | - | SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b)The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) | |
| 47 | + | SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 52 | 49 | SECTION 1. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 6630) is added to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, to read: | |
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| 56 | - | CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b)The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) | |
| 53 | + | CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 58 | - | CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b)The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) | |
| 55 | + | CHAPTER 6.1. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 64 | - | 6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
| 61 | + | 6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level.(b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality.(c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans.(d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence.(e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation.(f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.(g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life.(h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.(i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
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| 68 | 65 | 6630. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: | |
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| 70 | - | (a) California has begun the process of addressing the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and facilitating persistent, systemic policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level. | |
| 67 | + | (a) California has begun the process of addressing its the states role in accommodating and facilitating slavery, as documented in The California Reparations Report and sources cited therein, perpetuating the vestiges of enslavement, propagating state-sanctioned discrimination, and tolerating facilitating persistent, systemic structures of discrimination policies and practices discriminating against living African Americans across its systems of government at the local and state level. | |
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| 72 | 69 | (b) As a result of this historic and continued discrimination, African Americans in California, especially those whose lineage can be traced to an enslaved person, continue to suffer economic, educational, and health hardships that have prevented them as a people from achieving equality. | |
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| 74 | 71 | (c) In order to maintain slavery, government actors adopted white supremacist beliefs and passed laws to create a racial hierarchy and control enslaved and free African Americans. | |
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| 76 | 73 | (d) After the end of slavery, although the Federal Constitution recognized African Americans as citizens on paper, the government failed to give them the full rights of citizenship and failed to protect them from widespread terror and violence. | |
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| 78 | - | (e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation. | |
| 75 | + | (e) Along with a dereliction of the United States duty to protect its African American citizens, direct federal, state, state and local government actions in California continued to enforce the racist lies created to justify slavery. These state laws and government-supported cultural beliefs have since formed the foundation of innumerable modern laws, policies, and practices across the state and nation. | |
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| 80 | - | (f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today. | |
| 77 | + | (f) Even after the abolition of slavery, its badges and incidents remain embedded in the political, legal, health, financial, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and economic systems of the United States of America. America and the State of California. Racist, casteist, untrue, and harmful stereotypes created to support slavery continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today. | |
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| 82 | - | (g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life. | |
| 79 | + | (g) Without a remedy specifically targeted to dismantle our countrys racist foundations policies and practices and heal the injuries inflicted by colonial colonial, state, and American governments, the badges and incidents of slavery will continue to harm African Americans in almost all aspects of American life. | |
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| 84 | 81 | (h) The Legislature recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the state who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination. | |
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| 86 | - | (i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
| 83 | + | (i) The Legislature intends that the benefits issued under this chapter be dedicated to policies or programs that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
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| 88 | - | 6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b)The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) | |
| 85 | + | 6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.(b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a).(c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
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| 92 | - | 6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
| 89 | + | 6631. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that indemnify address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century. | |
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| 94 | 91 | (b) The Controller shall transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount, as determined by the Department of Finance, equal to six percent of the transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified in the annual Budget Act. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the fund shall be expended for the purpose described in subdivision (a). | |
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| 102 | - | (b) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. | |
| 93 | + | (c) The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice may receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, for the purpose of this chapter. |