# Plain Language Summary: Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

This resolution is asking Congress to create a new national commission that would examine America's history of racial injustice and work toward healing and reconciliation. Think of it as an official body tasked with investigating how racial discrimination has shaped our country's past and present, then figuring out practical ways to address the damage and move forward together.

The commission would likely investigate historical wrongs—things like slavery, segregation, discriminatory laws, and other systemic racism—and document how these injustices continue to affect communities today. It would bring together people from different backgrounds to listen to stories, examine evidence, and develop recommendations for how the government, businesses, and communities can repair relationships and create more equitable systems going forward. Similar commissions have been used in other countries after major conflicts or injustices to help societies acknowledge what happened and begin healing.

This is a concurrent resolution, which means it's a statement of intent from Congress rather than a law that would immediately change anything. It doesn't create the commission on its own or allocate specific funding—it's essentially Congress saying "we think this is a good idea and we want to make it happen." The actual creation of the commission would likely require additional legislation and funding decisions. If passed, this resolution would signal that Congress supports investigating racial injustice comprehensively and using that investigation to guide future policies aimed at greater equality and reconciliation.

A concurrent resolution urging the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.

Booker, Cory A.

 <p>This concurrent resolution (1) affirms, on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship, that the nation owes a debt of remembrance not only to those who lived through the injustices of slavery but also to their descendants; and (2) urges the establishment of a U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress, including toward permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities.</p>