Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 586, Sec. 1. (SB 518) Effective January 1, 2026.
(a)It is the intent of the Legislature in establishing the bureau to establish an initial framework and it is the intent of the Legislature that the scope and responsibilities of the bureau may expand as necessary to fulfill its mission and address additional harms as identified.
(b)It is the intent of the Legislature that, as the bureau expands its scope in the future, it shall do both of the following:
(1)Address the lasting harms of disenfranchisement, segregation, discrimination, exclusion neglect, and violence impacting both descendants and communities harmed as described in Chapters 1 to 13,
inclusive, of the California Reparations Report.
(2)Advise on reparative remedies to target the persistent consequences of this legacy, guided by Chapters 14 to 33, inclusive, of the California Reparations Report.
(c)Implementation of this chapter shall be contingent upon appropriation of sufficient funding by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or other statute for that purpose.
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