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.
