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CA SCR113
Concurrent Resolution
Status
Engrossed
2/29/2024
Primary Sponsor
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
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AI Summary
- Acknowledges California's role in promoting, facilitating, and enforcing chattel slavery and its ongoing systemic discrimination against African Americans from pre-Civil War era to present
- Documents California's historical legal failures including: enforcing federal fugitive slave laws until 1865, prohibiting African American court testimony until 1863, banning interracial marriage until 1959, and disenfranchising Black citizens through poll taxes and literacy tests
- Recognizes state-sanctioned violence against African Americans including lynching, coercive sterilization, and contemporary police killings, as well as discriminatory practices in housing, business, healthcare, and child welfare systems
- State of California accepts responsibility for harms and atrocities committed by representatives through slavery and resulting systemic structures of discrimination
- Affirms California's role in protecting descendants of enslaved people and their civil, political, and socio-cultural rights
Legislative Description
Human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.
Last Action
From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 2).
4/2/2024
Committee Referrals
Judiciary3/11/2024
Judiciary2/21/2024
Rules2/16/2024
Full Bill Text
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