End Dark Money Act

Bill: 116-hr-868
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
Introduced: 2019-01-30
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of the Treasury

Executive agency funding and structure

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Public participation and lobbying

Tax-exempt organizations
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>End Dark Money Act </b></p> <p>This bill repeals a restriction on the use of funds by the Internal Revenue Service during FY2019 for certain regulations, revenue rulings, or other guidance related to the standard used to determine whether a tax-exempt organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare for the purposes of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 868 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 2019 Mr. Crow (for himself and Mr. Sarbanes ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To repeal the restriction on the use of funds by the Internal Revenue Service to bring transparency to the political activity of certain nonprofit organizations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the End Dark Money Act . 2. Repeal of restriction of use of funds by Internal Revenue Service to bring transparency to political activity of certain nonprofit organizations Notwithstanding section 101 of division C of Public Law 115–245 , section 125 of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 shall have no force or effect during fiscal year 2019.