S 300
115th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations
Sunlight for Unaccountable Non-profits (SUN) Act
Introduced: February 3, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 3, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 3, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Sunlight for Unaccountable Non-profits (SUN) Act
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require: (1) the annual tax return information for tax-exempt organizations and deferred compensation plans to be made available to the public at no charge and in an open structured data format that is processable by computers, with the information easy to find, access, reuse, and download in bulk; and (2) the disclosure of the names and addresses of contributors of $5,000 or more to tax-exempt organizations that participate or intervene in political campaigns on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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