HF 5456 Summary

• Establishes the Minnesota Migration Act and creates a 19-voting-member advisory council to study reparations for American descendants of chattel slavery and analyze economic benefits of slavery and institutional racism.

• Requires the state to issue formal apologies for slavery at Fort Snelling, the 1920 Duluth lynching, I-94 freeway construction through the Rondo neighborhood, police killings, racial housing covenants, and systemic racism.

• Advisory council must review international remedy standards, identify laws perpetuating discrimination against African Americans, determine compensation forms and eligibility, and propose policies to address racial disparities.

• Council membership includes 19 voting members (2 House members, 2 senators, educators, business leaders, community activists, faith leaders, healthcare professionals, historians/economists/legal experts, and youth) plus 6 nonvoting state commissioners.

• Appropriates $500,000 from the workforce development fund to the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage in fiscal year 2025; council must submit initial report to legislature by March 31, 2025, and annual reports thereafter.