HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 751 FILED ON: 1/17/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2725
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Peter Capano
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act requiring public disclosures by publicly-traded corporate taxpayers.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
Peter Capano | 11th Essex | 1/17/2023 |
Lindsay N. Sabadosa | 1st Hampshire | 1/26/2023 |
Erika Uyterhoeven | 27th Middlesex | 1/26/2023 |
James K. Hawkins | 2nd Bristol | 1/30/2023 |
Brian W. Murray | 10th Worcester | 1/30/2023 |
David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf | 17th Worcester | 2/1/2023 |
Michael D. Brady | Second Plymouth and Norfolk | 2/1/2023 |
Samantha Montaño | 15th Suffolk | 2/3/2023 |
Mike Connolly | 26th Middlesex | 2/3/2023 |
Daniel Cahill | 10th Essex | 2/7/2023 |
Rebecca L. Rausch | Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex | 2/7/2023 |
Daniel M. Donahue | 16th Worcester | 2/8/2023 |
James C. Arena-DeRosa | 8th Middlesex | 2/9/2023 |
James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester | 2/13/2023 |
Michelle M. DuBois | 10th Plymouth | 2/13/2023 |
Danillo A. Sena | 37th Middlesex | 2/27/2023 |
Rodney M. Elliott | 16th Middlesex | 2/27/2023 |
Carmine Lawrence Gentile | 13th Middlesex | 3/9/2023 |
Natalie M. Higgins | 4th Worcester | 3/30/2023 |
Rita A. Mendes | 11th Plymouth | 4/11/2023 |
Steven Owens | 29th Middlesex | 4/25/2023 |
Marjorie C. Decker | 25th Middlesex | 5/4/2023 |
Vanna Howard | 17th Middlesex | 12/7/2023 |
Manny Cruz | 7th Essex | 1/24/2024 |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 751 FILED ON: 1/17/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2725
By Representative Capano of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2725) of Peter Capano and others relative to requiring public disclosures by publicly-traded corporate taxpayers. Revenue. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act requiring public disclosures by publicly-traded corporate taxpayers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION X. Section 83 of chapter 62C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking from the last sentence of subsection (a) the words, “; but the report or amended report shall be available for public inspection only after the state secretary has expunged the name of the taxpayer and the location, including street address, of the taxpayer’s principal office as required by subsection (n).”
SECTION Y. Said Section 83, as so appearing, is further amended by striking the period at the end of subsection (m) and replacing it with the following: --, together with a list of any corporations required to file in the preceding year that failed to file a report in that year.
SECTION Z. Said Section 83, as so appearing, is further amended by striking subsection (n) and replacing it with the following: -- (n) The state secretary shall make all information contained in the reports required under this section for all filing corporations available to the public on an ongoing basis in the form of a searchable database accessible through the internet. The state secretary shall make available and set charges that cover the cost to the state of providing copies on appropriate computer-readable media of the entire database for reports filed during each calendar year, as well as hard copies of an individual annual report for a specific corporation. No report for any corporation for a particular tax year shall be publicly available until the first day of the third calendar year that follows the calendar year in which the particular tax year ends.