HRES414-119

That the House of Representatives— recognizes the responsibility of the Federal Government to provide reparations, in all necessary forms, including financial compensation, to rectify ongoing harms resulting from violations, by the Federal Government, of Black people’s human right to self-determination and freedom from discrimination, including with respect to housing, health, education, life, security of person, water and sanitation, and a healthy environment; encourages support, passage, and implementation of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, which has been introduced every year since 1989, via Congress or the executive branch; encourages the reintroduction, passage, and implementation of legislation establishing the United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation; acknowledges and apologizes for the state-sanctioned institution of chattel slavery, and encourages the reintroduction and enactment of resolutions apologizing for slavery, without any limiting clauses; acknowledges the significance of and momentum brought by legacy organizations as well as additional grassroots and national organizations leading the modern-day reparations movement; encourages the creation of local, State, and Federal initiatives to identify sources of reparations demands arising from chattel slavery and its longstanding impact on Black people; and honors the lives, possibilities, and legacies of those named and unnamed whose lives and contributions were stolen by the institution of chattel slavery and other forms of state-sanctioned violence and racial discrimination in the United States.