The budget does not call for immediate cash payments for Californians whose lives were shaped by injustices. Instead, it promises some state money if lawmakers agree on proposals that supporters see as early steps to repair the consequences of California's past.
California lawmakers have pressed for ideas like creating a California American Freedmen Affairs Agency and prioritizing Black people for professional licenses, especially applicants who are descended from a person enslaved in the United States.
On Thursday, the Legislature placed on the November ballot a proposal to amend the State Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, even for state prisoners. The measure is part of a reparations package that the Black Caucus announced in January.
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