Reparations · State · OK
Oklahoma SB74: Appropriation Bill for Tulsa Race Massacre Compensation Program Introduced
- Direction
- +2 — major benefit to freedmen
- Force
- 0.10 — introduced or referred
- Status
- Developing
- Date
- 2025-02-04
Why this rating
If fully enacted, this bill would create a state-funded compensation program specifically tied to the Tulsa Race Massacre, a historical event whose direct victims and their descendants are overwhelmingly Black Americans of Freedmen lineage in the Greenwood community — making the mechanism lineage-specific rather than general. This places the direction at +2, major benefit, as a funded compensation program. However, the bill has only had a First and Second Reading and been referred to the Appropriations Committee as of 2025-02-04 — no committee hearing, markup, floor vote, or funding has yet occurred. Force is therefore 0.10: hostile-to-harm calculus does not apply here since the direction is positive, but the realized impact remains effectively zero at this early legislative stage.
Summary
Oklahoma State Senator Regina Goodwin introduced SB74, a bill directing the Department of Commerce to implement a program of compensation related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, with an appropriation to fund it. The bill includes an emergency clause and effective date provision.
Sources
- Department of Commerce; making appropriation; providing for implementation of program of compensation related to the Tulsa Race Massacre. Effective date. Emergency. — bill text · primary · legiscan
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