California Government Code

§ 8301.1

GOV § 8301.1 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 4.5 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1)In 2020, the people of California established 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 (Task Force) and required the Task Force to address, among other things, how the State of California will offer a formal apology on behalf of the people of California for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants, and how California laws and policies that continue to disproportionately and negatively affect African Americans as a group and perpetuate the lingering material and psychosocial effects of slavery can be eliminated.

(2)Based on the Task Force’s evidentiary findings and recommendations outlined in the report to the Legislature as required by the statute, the people of the State of California hereby acknowledge being a beneficiary of the forced enslavement of African slaves brought to California and the subordination of Black Californians that continued following the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 624, Sec. 1. (AB 3089) Effective January 1, 2025.