US Congress Senate Bill 40 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-1)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-25 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act

Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Alex Padilla [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-25	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB40 (Same As) 2021-04-14 - Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 17.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/40/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/s40/BILLS-117s40is.pdf