Sunlight for Unaccountable Non-profits (SUN) Act
- Last Action
- 2/3/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-03Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2017-02-03Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-02-03 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (5)
- TOM UDALL (D-NM)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Subjects
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Government information and archives
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax-exempt organizations
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