SJ332: Discrimination & injustice; General Assembly to acknowledge & express regret for State's role in.
Chief Patron
Sen.
Henry Marsh (D-16)
Henry Marsh
(D-16)
Suite 301 Richmond, VA
Served: 1992–
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Bill Passed
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- 01/03/2007 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 072610756
- 01/03/2007 Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/02/2007 Committee substitute printed 072670756-S1
- 02/05/2007 Reading waived (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2007 VOTE: (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/06/2007 Read second time
- 02/06/2007 Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 072670756-S1
- 02/06/2007 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SJ332S1
- 02/06/2007 Reading waived (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2007 VOTE: (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/06/2007 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
- 02/06/2007 Communicated to House
- 02/08/2007 Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/2007 Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/14/2007 Committee substitute printed 072693756-H1
- 02/16/2007 Taken up
- 02/16/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 072693756-H1
- 02/16/2007 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SJ332H1
- 02/16/2007 Agreed to by House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2007 VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/20/2007 House substitute rejected by Senate
- 02/21/2007 House insisted on substitute
- 02/21/2007 House requested conference committee
- 02/22/2007 Senate acceded to request
- 02/22/2007 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/22/2007 Senators: Marsh, Houck, Locke
- 02/22/2007 Conferees appointed by House
- 02/22/2007 Delegates: O'Bannon, Griffith, McEachin
- 02/24/2007 Conference substitute printed 072702756-S2
- 02/24/2007 Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/24/2007 Reading of conference report waived
- 02/24/2007 Conference report agreed to by Senate
- 02/27/2007 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ332ER)
Summary
Resolution; Atoning for the involuntary servitude
of Africans and calling for reconciliation. Expresses the General
Assembly's atonement, on behalf of the Commonwealth, for the slavery
of Africans, and calls for racial reconciliation. This resolution
notes the history of the American slave trade and the subsequent legal
and social structures throughout the nation that deprived African
Americans of their inalienable rights and states that healing and
reconciliation are possible with the acknowledgement of past grievous
indignities and injustices.
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The State of Virginia should atone for the slavery of the black people but, the State should only atone to the blacks that can prove they are the direct desendents of slaves of the Old Commonwealth. The only White people that should be forced to pay reparations to the blacks for enslavement in the State of Virginia should be required by law before paying reparations to prove direct linage to slave owners of the Old Commonwealth.
Actually, Bill, nobody's proposing any sort of reparations. That's nowhere in this proposed resolution, and I've heard no talk of any such thing. This is just a straight-up apology.
In one of the talk shows on WHRO they were discussing this bill and were talking about how the government is going to have slave owners' descendents pay slave descendents money. So you might want to look into it further. Because it can always be placed on another bill as a rider after this one gets passed.