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   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill   
   Wednesday that would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated   
   for property that was unjustly taken by the government.   
      
   The bill would have created a process for families to file a claim with   
   the state if they believe the government seized their property through   
   eminent domain due to discriminatory motives and without providing fair   
   compensation.   
      
   The proposal by itself would not have been able to take full effect   
   because lawmakers blocked another bill to create a reparations agency that   
   would have reviewed claims.   
      
   "I thank the author for his commitment to redressing past racial   
   injustices,” Newsom said in a statement. “However, this bill tasks a   
   nonexistent state agency to carry out its various provisions and   
   requirements, making it impossible to implement.”   
      
   The veto dealt a blow to a key part of a package of reparations bills the   
   California Legislative Black Caucus backed this year in an effort to help   
   the state atone for decades of policies that drove racial disparities for   
   Black Americans. The caucus sent other proposals to Newsom's desk that   
   would require the state to formally apologize for slavery and its   
   lingering impacts, improve protections against hair discrimination for   
   athletes and combat the banning of books in state prisons.   
      
   Democratic state Sen. Steven Bradford introduced the eminent domain bill   
   after Los Angeles-area officials in 2022 returned a beachfront property to   
   a Black couple a century after it was taken from their ancestors through   
   eminent domain. Bradford said in a statement earlier this year that his   
   proposal was part of a crucial “framework for reparations and correcting a   
   historic wrong.”   
      
   Bradford also introduced a bill this year to create an agency to help   
   Black families research their family lineage and implement reparations   
   programs that become law, and a measure to create a fund for reparations   
   legislation.   
      
   But Black caucus members blocked the reparations agency and fund bills   
   from receiving a final vote in the Assembly during the last week of the   
   legislative session last month. The caucus cited concerns that the   
   Legislature would not have oversight over the agency’s operations and   
   declined to comment further on the reparations fund bill because it wasn’t   
   part of the caucus' reparations priority package.   
      
   The move came after the Newsom administration pushed for the agency bill   
   to be turned into legislation allocating $6 million for California State   
   University to study how to implement the reparations task force’s   
   recommendations, according to a document with proposed amendments shared   
   by Bradford’s office.   
      
   Newsom’s office declined to comment to The Associated Press last month on   
   the reparations agency and fund proposals, saying it doesn't typically   
   weigh in publicly on pending legislation.   
      
   The administration's Department of Finance said earlier this year it   
   opposed the eminent domain bill because it was not specifically included   
   in the budget. The agency said the cost to implement it was unknown but   
   could have ranged “from hundreds of thousands of dollars to low millions   
   of dollars annually, depending on the workload required to accept, review,   
   and investigate applications.”   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-eminent-domain-   
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