Efforts to implement reparations measures recommended by the California Reparations Task Force lost momentum at the end of the 2024 legislative session.

Some legislation fell short during last year's session amid a split within the legislative Black Caucus over slow progress.

But Legislators have renewed the push with some new proposals and some modified versions of bills from last year, a package they're calling the Road to Repair 2025.

Still, the Black Caucus says it isn't backing down from its push for equity in reparative justice legislation.

The group is not using the word reparations to describe its collection of 16 bills, partly because the legislation does not require cash payments as restitution for slavery.

That's a change from last year, when the group's incremental approach led to a clash with advocates.

The slate includes second tries at measures that failed last year, such as establishing a new state agency to help implement and fund equity legislation and removing language from the state constitution that allows prison administrators to force people to work under threat of disciplinary consequences.

While a majority of Californians have said they support an official apology for the state's role in supporting slavery, the idea of direct cash reparations is unpopular.

A 2023 poll by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies showed Californians opposing payments by a two-to-one margin.

CalMatters' reparation calculator, based on economic modeling in the task force's report, estimates that an eligible Black resident who has lived seven decades in California could be owed up to $1.2 million.

For CalMatters, I'm Robert Meeks, with reporting by Wendy Fry and Erica Yee