joining us live now is state senator steven bradford of southern california. senator bradford, we appreciate you being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you're coming off a pretty successful day in the assembly with all three of your bills moving out of the judiciary committee. we'll walk through each of the bills, starting with the bill to create a freemen affairs agency to oversee reparations created by the state. i know this is more than a year in the making for you. how would this work if it does pass the full assembly and is signed into law by the governor? >> uh- sb uh- 1050 i mean, i'm sorry, sb 1403 would set up the infrastructure for the freedmen american freedmen's affairs bureau, similar to what we had in 1865 after emancipation proclamation to oversee whatever reparations is of helping to uh- determine in the communities of eligibility, eligibility those individuals who qualify for reparations. and again, if reparations is going to lead to homebuyer assistance meting out all of those programs that need to be addressed. so it's going to be the inf

land back to black californians, so that third bill has pursuant introduced by state senator steven bradfordhe friedman affairs agency which would evaluate claims brought by black families that believe their property in california was unjustly seized through eminent domain. if it is determined that case is accurate the state office of legal affair would offer black residents remedies including the return of that land, giving them land and equal present-day value, or monetary payments equal to what they would have been owed. there's debate on both sides but one concern that has been raised is whether such moves would even be legal. with the supreme court striking down affirmative action last year these moves could be deemed unconstitutional. stuart: and they certainly are in my personal opinion. madison thank you very much indeed. now this , california lawmakers kate sanchez debated whether or not asian and latino residents should have to pay for slavery reparations. watch this. >> the majority of our state is latino and asian making up 55% of our population. it is fundamentally unfair to for

. >> it was state senator steven bradford who authored the bills and spoke to the committee about them three now advanced to the assembly appropriations committee and then to the full assembly for a vote. the first bill would create an agency to oversee reparations. the second would create a fund for reparations and reparative justice, and the third would compensate families for racially motivated land taking. >> there's hundreds there's thousands of examples we just learned about uh- silas white, who was african american business person in santa monica who had his property taken today, and they took it under the guise that the city needed a parking lot in 1960. well, there's a four star hotel that sits on that land that's still owned by the city of manhattan. i mean, santa monica, which they're receiving rent from every day. that money should be going to the uh- white heir. so there are many examples like that. so we want to where those opportunities exist, we want to either compensate those individuals if it's still under state local control. we're not talking about taking property t