Bill Text: CA SB1050 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California American Freedmen Affairs Agency: racially motivated eminent domain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-22 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1050 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1050-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 03, 2024 |
Introduced by Senator Bradford (Coauthor: Senator Smallwood-Cuevas) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Jackson) |
February 07, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16005) is added to Part 14 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:CHAPTER 4. Restitution for Race-Based Eminent Domain
16005.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to compensate victims of racially motivated eminent domain, which deprived persons of just compensation for their property due to racially discriminatory motives. The unjust taking of land without fair compensation destroyed communities, forced many from their historical neighborhoods, deprived those persons of the fair value of their property, and, in many cases, prevented the accumulation of generational wealth. Providing compensation to these victims of racial discrimination will restore the value of wrongfully taken property to rightful owners and hold government entities responsible for those wrongful discriminatory acts.16005.16006.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1)Research and document state properties acquired as a result of racially motivated eminent domain, and document the person who owned that property when it was acquired by the state.
(3)By January 1, 2026, create a database, to be updated annually thereafter, of rightful owners identified pursuant to paragraph (1) and confirmed to have been the victim of racially motivated eminent domain after investigation pursuant to paragraph (2).
(c)(1)Subject to paragraph (2), the Office of the Chief Financial Officer may distribute, upon appropriation by the Legislature, just compensation to a rightful owner identified in the database created pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) for the
(2)Just compensation shall be distributed only upon a determination by the Chief Financial Officer that