A bill to amend the charter of the Gold Star Wives of America to remove the restriction on the federally chartered corporation, and directors and officers of the corporation, attempting to influence legislation.

Bill: 114-s-1366
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2015-05-18
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations

Military personnel and dependents
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-18
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill amends the charter of the Gold Star Wives of America corporation to remove the prohibition on the corporation or a director or officer contributing to, supporting, or participating in any political activity or in any manner attempting to influence legislation.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1366 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 18, 2015 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the charter of the Gold Star Wives of America to remove the restriction on the federally chartered corporation, and directors and officers of the corporation, attempting to influence legislation.

1. Revision of Federal charter restrictions on Gold Star Wives of America Section 80507 of title 36, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking subsection (b); and (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (b) and (c), respectively.