MN SF3950

Establishes the Minnesota Migration Act and appropriates $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to study the effects of systemic racism on Black Minnesotans who are descendants of enslaved persons.

Directs the Minnesota Migration Act Steering Committee to analyze past economic benefits of slavery and institutional racism, and identify public and private institutions that benefited from anti-Black practices.

Requires the steering committee to issue a written report with recommendations on the form of compensation to be awarded and the mechanisms for dispersal.

State issues official apologies for holding Dred and Harriet Scott in military slavery at Fort Snelling, the 1920 Duluth lynching, I-94 freeway construction through the Rondo neighborhood, police killings of George Floyd and others, racial housing covenants, and systemic racism in Minnesota.

State commits to implementing law enforcement reform and working to create generational wealth for descendants of chattel slavery while addressing systemic racism that prevents upward mobility of Black residents.