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Amendment #16 (Chandler) adopted -see Roll Call #214 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0)

S2800  ·  Senate roll call No. 214  ·  2020-07-13 15:19  ·  191st General Court (2019 to 2020)
40 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 16, moved by Harriette L. Chandler  ·  Adopted

Creating a Commission on Structural Racism

by inserting after section 66 the following section:- "SECTION 66A. (a) There shall be a commission to make an investigation and study to: (i) dismantle structural racism in a systemic way that eliminates the violence of arrest, disparities of incarceration and barriers to positive community re-entry; (ii) systematically, comprehensively and iteratively review where and how the systemic presence of structural and institutional racism in the department of correction has generated a culture or practices and policies that produces racial inequality, trauma or disparate impacts and outcomes by race among and between incarcerated persons, corrections officers or other department of correction …

yea · 40

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.