The bill's passage would make New York the second major state, after California, to study reparations for descendants of enslaved people.
New York legislators are poised to pass a bill to create a commission to study the history of slavery in the state and to possibly recommend remedies and reparations to descendants of enslaved people.
"A sufficient inquiry has not been made into the effects of the institution of slavery on present day society in New York," the bill reads. Democratic state Senator James Sanders Jr. speaks at New York's Capitol in 2019. He has proposed legislation to establish a slavery reparations commission in New York since 2017, and Democratic lawmakers are hopeful the Legislature will pass his latest version.Democratic lawmakers in New York hope the Legislature will approve SB1163A in the coming days after the measure struggled for years to gain traction. State Senator James Sanders Jr.
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