Advocacy Updates

A number of provisions in President Donald Trump’s blockbuster bill to enact his second-term agenda will go into effect throughout the year.

In its first real act of the new session, the General Assembly moved to create a $330 million fund to mitigate potential federal funding cuts to social services, housing and healthcare programs.

Should CT offer one-time or ongoing relief from flush coffers?

The General Assembly is back in session today, ready to tackle new bills, committee meetings and financial decisions.

Plan would finance $500 million rebate, lessen tax hike on hospitals, preserve new aid for K-12 schools.

Nonprofit agencies exist to do things so the government doesn’t have to, and they are the way government learns about what’s happening in communities and reaches out and helps people in need in the communities, according to Gian-Carl Casa, president and CEO of the CT Community Nonprofits Alliance.

A number of provisions in President Donald Trump’s blockbuster bill to enact his second-term agenda will go into effect throughout the year.

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has endorsed legislation introduced by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to recognize accounting as a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education program. The Accounting STEM Pursuit Act (S. 3784) establishes the accounting profession as a STEM career pathway, allowing students greater access to accounting programs.

Just over 100 business associations have urged Treasury to destroy beneficial ownership information (BOI) records that domestic companies no longer must file, saying the retention of the records no longer serves a legitimate purpose.

For several weeks, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has expressed opposition to a proposed Department of Education regulation that would exclude accounting programs across the country from a professional degree designation for the purposes of graduate student loan limits.