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 08/29/25 - Amended Senate
 08/18/25 - Amended Senate
 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 12/02/24 - Introduced

 AB-62 Civil Rights Department: racially motivated eminent domain.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/11/2025 02:00 PM

AB62:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 11, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 08, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 09, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 August 29, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 August 18, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 February 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 62

Introduced by Assembly Member McKinnor
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Bryan, Elhawary, Gipson, Jackson, Ransom, Sharp-Collins, and Wilson)
(Coauthors: Senators Richardson, Smallwood-Cuevas, and Weber Pierson)

December 02, 2024

An act to amend Section 11041 of, and to add Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 12991) to Part 2.8 of Division 3 of Title 2 of, the Government Code, relating to state government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 62, McKinnor.
 Civil Rights Department: racially motivated eminent domain.

Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2030, the Racial Equity Commission within the Office of Planning and Research and requires the commission to develop resources, best practices, and tools for advancing racial equity by, among other things, developing a statewide Racial Equity Framework that includes methodologies and tools that can be employed to advance racial equity and address structural racism in California. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, establishes the Civil Rights Department and sets forth its powers and duties, including, among others, receiving, investigating, and prosecuting complaints alleging violations of civil rights, as specified.

This bill would require the Civil Rights Department (department), to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, review, investigate, and make certain determinations regarding applications from persons who claim they are the dispossessed owner, as defined, of property taken as a result of racially motivated eminent domain. The bill would define “racially motivated eminent domain” to mean when the state, county, city, city and county, district, or other political subdivision of the state acquires private property for public use and does not distribute just compensation to the owner at the time of the taking, and the taking, or the failure to provide just compensation, was due, in whole or in part, to the
 owner’s ethnicity or race. Upon a determination that providing property or just compensation is warranted, as provided, the bill would require the department to certify that the dispossessed owner is entitled to the return of the taken property, as specified, or other publicly held property, as defined, of equal value, or financial compensation, as specified. Upon a determination that the dispossessed owner is entitled to other publicly held property of equal value, the bill would require the department to solicit and select, as specified, a list of recommendations of publicly held
 properties that are suitable as compensation, as provided. Upon a rejection of the determination of the department by the state or local agency that took property by racially motivated eminent domain, the bill would authorize the dispossessed owner, as specified, to bring an action to challenge the taking or the amount of compensation, as provided. Upon a determination that an applicant is not a dispossessed owner or issuing property or just compensation is not warranted, the bill would require the department to notify the applicant of its finding and provide an appeal process, as
 specified. The bill would require the department to prioritize processing applications for claims made by the individual or individuals who held legal title to the affected property at the time of its taking, as specified. The bill would make every finding, decision, determination, or other official act of the department subject to judicial review.

Existing law generally prohibits state agencies from employing in-house counsel to act on behalf of the agency or its employees in specified judicial or administrative adjudicative proceedings, but exempts specified agencies from this provi