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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Chattel slavery: formal apology."
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description: "Former law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Former law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force's findings, as specified. Former law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 3089"
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citation: "California AB 3089 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
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subjects: ["Chattel slavery", "formal apology"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2024-02-16"
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last_action: "2024-09-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d416a047-cb3a-461d-ab32-9e19fad71307"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089"
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source_hash: "ddf4e126818e1a91dfec5d4958479663fdc07cf4af062e39563e830482a53fd6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 3089 (20232024) — Chattel slavery: formal apology.
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Former law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Former law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force's findings, as specified. Former law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308999INT)
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2. **04/02/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308998AMD)
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3. **06/10/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308997AMD)
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4. **06/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308996AMD)
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5. **09/26/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308994CHP)
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6. **AB3089** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089)
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7. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089&version=20230AB308995ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 3089 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 3089 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **64–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB3089 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Bradford — **32–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
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- Bonta — author (person)
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- Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
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- Bryan — author (person)
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- Gipson — author (person)
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- Holden — author (person)
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- Jackson — author (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- McCarty — author (person)
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- McKinnor — author (person)
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- Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
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- Weber — author (person)
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- Wilson — author (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2024-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2024-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-16** Coauthors revised.
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- **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2024-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
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- **2024-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2024-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2024-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 624, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d416a047-cb3a-461d-ab32-9e19fad71307`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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