🚨 🚨 URGENT 🚨🚨
The bill goes to a full vote on the House floor on Thursday, November 21, so be sure to take action today or Wednesday! We know you are busy and don't need another thing to do but while your addressing those year-end asks call/email your representatives!!!!
All the details you need here: https://lnkd.in/gMnEjXEw
House Bill 9495 would give the Treasury Secretary unilateral decision-making power to take away a nonprofit's 501(c)3 status. The bill is written to suggest that this will shut down terrorist organizations, yet does NOT require proof of connections to terrorism or that the Treasury Secretary discloses the reasoning or supporting evidence.
This could mean that nonprofits who speak out about the government or in opposition to the current (or future) party in power could be shut down, and be tasked with the burden of proving their innocence within 90 days.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), quoted in Nonprofit Quarterly, shared:
“[The bill] creates a high risk of politicized and discriminatory enforcement. Many of us are deeply concerned that this will be misused by the incoming president, who has labeled mainstream organizations in this country as ‘terrorist’ organizations and he will be able to use this, if it ever became law, to deny organizations their tax-exempt status, to punish them, to try to silence them, without any due process, without any hearing, without any nothing,” said McGovern just before the vote. “This is a dangerous pathway this committee is paving for us to go down.”
Full text of H.R. 9495
https://lnkd.in/gZZn7_YG
Thank you Lauren Andraski for putting together this info so we could get it out there!
