SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators are expected to consider a plan that would make it the first in the nation to provide reparations for systemic discrimination against Black Americans. Just what those reparations would look like, however, is proving to be a much trickier question.

A task force convened by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority wrapped up two years of work this summer, culminating in more than 1,000 pages of findings that discuss eligibility and compensation in the form of both policy changes and direct payouts. The group considered factors beyond slavery, including housing discrimination, health harms, mass incarceration and excessive policing. It recommended that only residents descended from slaves or from free African Americans who lived in the U.S. prior to 1900 be eligible for reparations.

The task of putting those ideas to paper now falls to the lawmakers. So far, few have committed to backing any specific statute, including cash payments. Based on the annual amounts recommended by the report’s authors, a person could receive reparations of more than $1.2 million.