SB1 declares racism a “public health crisis” in Connecticut and establishes a Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health. It also creates a Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Committee.
The House passed SB1 on June 1, 2021, by a vote of 114 to 33. We have assigned pluses to the nays because health care–let alone “racial equity” or gun control–is not the legitimate object of government at any level. No state should compel its citizens to furnish taxpayer money for a public health system, or any other unconstitutional project in violation of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, especially when stoked by a rage of racial factionalism.