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New York Assembly Bill Would Require Disclosure of Slavery-Era Insurance Policies and State Contractor Ties to Slavery

Why this rating

The bill would create a disclosure and record-keeping mechanism specifically tied to enslavement of Black Americans and their historical enslavers, which is the ancestral basis for Freedmen lineage claims. However, the bill itself confers no direct material benefit — it mandates reporting, not compensation, restitution, or funded programs. Any effect on Freedmen specifically is indirect and contingent on future use of the disclosed information (e.g., in litigation or future reparations policy), and the bill remains in committee with no indication it has advanced toward passage.

Summary

New York Assembly Bill A07866, the proposed "New York slavery era business and state procurement disclosure act," would require insurance companies to report on insurance policies issued during the slavery era to slaveholders that provided coverage for damage to or death of enslaved people. The bill would also require companies seeking to enter into or renew procurement contracts with New York state agencies to disclose slavery-era financing, investments, and profits derived from slavery.

Sources

• Enacts the "New York slavery era business and state procurement disclosure act"; requires insurers to report insurance policies issued to slaveholders during the slavery era that provided coverage for damage to or death to such slaveholders' slaves; requires contractors seeking to enter into or renew procurement contracts with state agencies to report slavery era financing, investments and profits of slavery. — bill text · primary · legiscan

Rated under the published impact rubric. Direction records what a measure would do if fully effective; force records how far it has actually travelled. Neither is inferred — both trace to the sources above. Think something here is wrong? Tell us and we will log the correction.

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