Bill Sponsor
Illinois House Resolution 292
Session 103rd
Pan-Africanism & Reparations
Active
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Passed House on May 24, 2023
First Action
May 15, 2023
Latest Action
May 24, 2023
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Resolution
Bill Number
292
State
Illinois
Session
103rd
Sponsorship by Party
House Votes (0)
House votes are unavailable for this bill.
Summary
Declares the State of Illinois should take the lead on issues of Pan-Africanism, citizenship in Africa, and reparatory justice, and the State should champion the Eighth Pan-African Congress Part 1 (8PAC1) and its agenda to develop a continental-wide diaspora citizenship plan, establish the African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African Union (AU), and determine a permanent headquarters for the 6th Region. Calls upon the State to immediately, through its African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC), provide matrilineal and patrilineal DNA testing through African ancestry to determine the ancestral lineages and territories of origin of its Black residents so that they can seek citizenship in their ancestral homelands, if so desired. Calls upon the State to become the first to conduct a repatriation census in preparation for honoring President Abraham Lincoln's desire for voluntary repatriation with compensation and to make conducting the repatriation census its immediate priority.
Sources
Record Created
May 15, 2023 10:00:57 PM
Record Updated
Apr 12, 2024 4:21:00 AM