A lawyer with Tax Code experience reviewed the bill to revise the Tax Code yesterday. She complimented me on the work that I did, made some suggestions to reword some portions of the bill, and suggested that more attorneys review the bill. The bottom line is that the bill will not infringe on an individual's 1st Amendment rights and that many organizations will oppose portions of the bill.
If you would like to read a copy of the bill, please send me a PM. I would appreciate help forwarding the bill to attorneys with Tax Code, legislative writing, Constitutional Law, or legislative committee experience.
Also if you would like to do something very constructive, please call and/or write your Congressional Representatives and Representative Jackie Speier by using www.senate.gov or www.house.gov and their legislative websites. Representative Jackie Speier is a survivor of the Jonestown Massacre and is one of the few Representatives who does not use a Zip Code filter to eliminate correspondence with non-constituents.
With copying a pasting the template below and using Goggle Chrome's autofill feature, it should take less than 20 minutes to write to four Representatives.
Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,
Robert
The following is a template of a letter similar to what I sent my Congressional:
Dear Senator or Honorable Representative:
I respectfully ask that you introduce or co-sponsor a bill to the 114th Congress by the end of March 2015 to revise the Tax Code to require that tax-exempt organizations protect children from sexual abuse instead of protecting and enabling pedophiles.
[Insert your personal experience(s) that justifies passing such a bill.]
[Insert your opinion about why you support this bill.]
If you are interested, please ask me to send to a Congressional staff-member or legislative-writer a rough-draft copy of the bill (~ 85% finished) with the following provisions:
1. Insert a new sub-section in 26 U.S. Code § 501 to describe the criteria and process to suspend an organization's tax-exempt status, and would allow the IRS to charge all tax-exempt organizations a nominal annual fee (may be $10 to $50) to fund the effort. Applicable tax-exempt organizations would be required to ensure that applicable adults pass a criminal background check and complete sexual abuse awareness training, to promote to members and employees to report suspected violent felonies to local law enforcement, to prohibit using undue influence on members and employees, and to prohibit promoting bigotry, prejudice, and inciting hatred and civil unrest.
2. Amend 26 U.S. Code § 6033 to require that all tax-exempt organizations, including religious organizations that are currently exempt, to file annual reports and adds additional requirements about what to include in the annual reports.
3. Amend 26 U.S. Code § 6104 to require the Treasury to provide free access to applications for tax-exemption and annual reports through the internet. The Treasury would be prohibited from releasing personal contact information (not business contact information) through the internet.
4. Create Section 520 to allow taxing of funds transferred from/to non-compliant organizations to reduce funding to such organizations.
After reading the bill you will better understand how it will protect children from sexual abuse, prohibit promoting prejudice, bigotry, and hate-speech, and increase transparency and accountability by all tax-exempt organizations.
[Insert closing salutation]
