To Whom It May Concern:
If existence of your company, or its predecessors, can be traced back to 1865, be advised: If you do not fully disclose the names of enslaved employees, any profits gained from their work, and any insurance policies taken out on them prior to that time, you’re in danger of losing your state contracts.
So stipulates Rep. Womble’s bill H691.
How many vendors are liable for this? I bet the answer will be surprising.
I wonder if special consideration will be granted to firms in South Carolina and Georgia who no longer have personnel files from 144 years ago, seeing how Sherman’s troops were sometimes careless with fire and all that.
