Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act

Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act

Long title	To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
Announced in	the 118th United States Congress
Number of co-sponsors	130
Legislative history
Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 40 by Sheila Jackson Lee (D–TX) on January 9, 2023 Committee consideration by House Judiciary

The Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, is an Act of Congress in the United States introduced in 1989 by Rep. John Conyers. The act aims to create a commission to examine the merits of introducing reparations to African-Americans for US slavery. The current iteration of the act is sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.^[1]