General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5298
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 1957
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
(GL)
AN ACT CONCERNING CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
TRANSPARENCY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2021) A charitable organization
2 registered with the Department of Consumer Protection pursuant to
3 section 21a-190b of the general statutes shall, when engaging in
4 solicitation, or upon request from any person, disclose its registration
5 number and the percentage of funds collected by such organization in
6 the prior calendar year that directly funded the charitable purpose of
7 such organization. For purposes of this section, "charitable
8 organization", "charitable purpose", "person" and "solicit" have the same
9 meanings as defined in section 21a-190a of the general statutes.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2021 New section
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 Raised Bill No. 5298
Statement of Purpose:
To require charitable organizations to disclose their registration
numbers and certain financial information when soliciting funds.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
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