US Congress Senate Bill 40

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-09 - 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. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Sen. Andy Kim [D-NJ]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Alex Padilla [D-CA]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Sen. Raphael Warnock [D-GA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-09	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/40/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s40/BILLS-119s40is.pdf