About the bill
While 77% of black Americans support reparations, only 18% of white Americans do.
Context
Reparations are financial payments to compensate individuals for past government discrimination, suffered either by themselves or their ancestors. Usually, that means payments for black people, as compensation for slavery or Jim Crow laws.
In 2019, the 75,000-population Evanston, Illinois became the first city in America to institute taxpayer-funded reparations for black residents.
The program began by giving select black residents $25,000 each, targeted at the city’s modern-day residents who are descended from the city’s black residents circa 1919–69, back when the city maintained racist zoning ordinances. In May 2023, the City Council voted to expand the reparations even further.
For the most part, reparations remain an almost-entirely theoretical discussion. Yet in recent years, …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Jun 23, 2023
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on June 23, 2023. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
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14 Cosponsors (14 Republicans)
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H.R. 4321 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 4321. This is the one from the 118th Congress.
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