CA Lawmakers Advance Bill To Replace Toppled Statue Of Catholic Saint With Native American Monument

The California State Senate voted 28-2 on Monday to send a bill to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk to replace a toppled statue of the first saint canonized on U.S. soil that once stood outside the state Capitol with a Native American monument.

The Sacramento Bee reported, Assembly Bill 338 (AB 338) “removes the statutory requirement for the Capitol to maintain a statue of Father Junipero Serra, and replaces it with a mandate to install a work of art that commemorates the indigenous people on whose land California sits.”