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Bill	Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.	Existing law requests the Regents of the University of California to assemble a colloquium of scholars to draft a research proposal to analyze the economic benefits of slavery that accrued to owners and the businesses, including insurance companies and their subsidiaries, that received those benefits, and to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding those findings.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 3121	California AB 3121 (20192020)	bill	Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.	enacted	Weber	6	24	8	2020-02-21	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6c339565-0e8e-43e2-b289-929bd9ee422c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3121	945714e458b773ef7422e0f56a94b8bd169f4ab67f1d623f0c763ed08d0c2b47	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3121 (20192020) — Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.

Existing law requests the Regents of the University of California to assemble a colloquium of scholars to draft a research proposal to analyze the economic benefits of slavery that accrued to owners and the businesses, including insurance companies and their subsidiaries, that received those benefits, and to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding those findings.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB3121 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 3121 Weber Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–12 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB3121 Weber et al. By Mitchell — 33–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 3121 Weber Assembly Third Reading — 61–12 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Holden — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kamlager — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (May 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 12. Page 4829.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 4438.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 12. Page 5370.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 319, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c339565-0e8e-43e2-b289-929bd9ee422c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).