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Introduced April 10, 2025 by Ayanna Pressley · Last progress April 10, 2025
The bill directs federal research, funding, data collection, and training to study and reduce harms from structural racism and police violence—improving evidence, transparency, and targeted interventions—but does so with open‑ended costs, privacy risks, administrative burdens, and likely political and legal pushback.
Racial and ethnic minority, low‑income, and Tribal communities will gain dedicated federal research, regional centers, and targeted interventions to study and reduce how racism and police violence harm health, increasing access to evidence‑based prevention and services.
State, local, Tribal governments and nonprofits will receive new grant funding and cooperative agreements to support antiracism research and programs, with required Tribal consultation and respect for Tribal data sovereignty.
The public, policymakers, and researchers will gain access to standardized, disaggregated data and annual reporting on structural racism, health impacts, and police use of force, improving transparency and enabling more targeted policy responses.
Taxpayers could face substantial, open‑ended federal spending because multiple provisions authorize “such sums as may be necessary” without appropriation limits.
Public release of disaggregated data risks privacy and reidentification for people in small racial/ethnic groups or with disabilities unless deidentification safeguards and protections are robust.
The bill may provoke legal challenges, political controversy, and stakeholder pushback—including litigation over the definition of 'antiracist' and resistance to framing racism as a public‑health issue—which could delay or complicate implementation.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a CDC antiracism center and a law-enforcement violence prevention program to research harms, publish disaggregated data, run grants, set standards, and report publicly; funding unspecified.
Creates a new CDC-based National Center on Antiracism and Health and a law-enforcement violence prevention program within CDC’s injury center to study how structural racism and police use of force affect public health, publish disaggregated data, run grant programs, set standards and trainings, coordinate with other federal and tribal entities, and regularly report to the public and Congress. Both programs are authorized to receive unspecified funding (“such sums as may be necessary”) and focus on research, data collection and sharing, public education, regional centers, and funding to state, local, academic, nonprofit, and community partners.