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   California Gov. Gavin Newsom dealt a blow to legislation linked to the   
   state's groundbreaking reparations efforts on Wednesday.   
      
   He vetoed Senate Bill 1050, which would have restored property taken under   
   racially-motivated uses of eminent domain to its original owners or   
   provide another remedy, such as restitution or compensation.   
      
   "I thank the author for his commitment to redressing past racial   
   injustices," Newsom said in a statement, referring to state Sen. Steven   
   Bradford. "However, this bill tasks a nonexistent state agency to carry   
   out its various provisions and requirements, making it impossible to   
   implement."   
      
   The agency that would have carried out the policy would have been created   
   if Senate Bill 1403 passed the legislature. The bill, also introduced by   
   Bradford, was intended to create an agency to carry out the   
   recommendations of the state's groundbreaking first-in-the-nation Task   
   Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.   
      
   It failed following last-minute changes from the Newsom administration   
   that instead aimed to to support further research on reparations in the   
   state instead of creating the agency to carry out reparations   
   recommendations from the state task force, according to local news outlet   
   CalMatters.   
      
   Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3131, which requires the state department of   
   education to prioritize funding for socioeconomically disadvantaged   
   communities, on Sept. 22.   
      
   This bill would require the department, in consultation with the executive   
   director of the State Board of Education, when determining grant   
   recipients for the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant   
   Program, to first give priority consideration to applicants in   
   historically redlined communities, as determined by the department. The   
   same would apply to the K–12 Selection Committees, when determining grant   
   recipients under the K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program.   
      
   Several other bills from a legislative reparations package from the   
   California Legislative Black Caucus are awaiting a response from Newsom.   
   The package aimed to capture the many forms that reparations can take,   
   according to Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson, chair of the California   
   Legislative Black Caucus.   
      
   "While many only associate direct cash payments with reparations, the true   
   meaning of the word, to repair, involves much more," said Wilson in the   
   introduction of the legislative package.   
      
   She noted that the package addressed the need for "a comprehensive   
   approach to dismantling the legacy of slavery and systemic racism."   
      
   This legislative package was born out of California's first-in-the-nation   
   state-backed task force that found the state and various arms of its   
   government played an active role in perpetuating systemic racism against   
   Black Californians through discrimination in housing, education and   
   employment.   
      
   The bills that await a response from Newsom include Assembly Bill 3089,   
   which would issue a formal apology from the state of California for "all   
   of the harms and atrocities committed by the state" for perpetuating   
   racial discrimination through chattel slavery, segregation, unequal   
   disbursal of government funding and more.   
      
   This bill "declares that such actions shall not be repeated" and "commits   
   to restore and repair affected peoples with actions beyond this apology."   
      
   Senate Bill 1089 would address food and health inequities by requiring   
   advance notification if a grocery store or pharmacy is closing in an   
   underserved or at-risk community.   
      
   The other 10 bills from the California Legislative Black Caucus' 14-bill   
   reparations package failed to make it through the legislature.   
      
   The bills that failed to make it through the legislature included bans on   
   involuntary servitude and solitary confinement in state detention   
   facilities, funding for violence reduction programs, and funding "for the   
   purpose of increasing the life expectancy of, improving educational   
   outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups."   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gov-gavin-newsom-deals-blow-reparations-   
   effort-california/story?id=113562232   
      
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