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Virginia Bill to Create Commission on Black Land Loss Stalled in Committee

Why this rating

If enacted and fully effective, the commission would formally investigate and document the specific historical and legal mechanisms — many rooted in post-emancipation and Jim Crow-era state and local law — used to strip land from Black Virginians, a documentary predicate often invoked for lineage-specific remedies such as heirs'-property reform or reparative land policy; this is a meaningful but non-monetary step, not a benefit program itself, so it is scored +1 rather than +2. On force, the bill has not passed either chamber: it was referred to Rules, assigned to a subcommittee that recommended continuing it, and was then continued to the next session by voice vote — meaning it has not advanced past initial committee handling and has produced no realized effect, warranting the lowest force value of 0.10.

Summary

HB1232, prefiled by Del. Karrie Delaney (D-VA), would establish a 17-member Commission on Black Land Loss within the Virginia legislature. The commission—10 legislative members and 7 nonlegislative citizen members—would study existing and historical laws used by the state and its localities to take land from Black people, and issue a report.

Sources

• Black Land Loss, Commission on; established, report. — bill text · primary · legiscan

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