Comments: IL HR0045 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

Bill Title: Requests President Trump to commission a study to detail the economic impact of the slave trade and the use of slave labor; and how Emancipation, while freeing them of their literal bonds, and ending an immoral practice, did not guarantee equality in education, employment, housing, and access to quality affordable health care; that this study also include an analysis for how reparations for past harms have benefited the ethnic groups that have received them during the course of American history; and a proposal for reparations to the descendants of slaves in America, and how those reparations can help overcome obstacles that still exist today in education, employment, housing, health care, and justice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly [HR0045 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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