US Congress Senate Bill 40

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-1)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-01-24 - 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. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Alex Padilla [D-CA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Raphael Warnock [D-GA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-24	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB40 (Related) 2023-01-09 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/40/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s40/BILLS-118s40is.pdf