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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3385 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3083
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Daniel M. Donahue
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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:Daniel M. Donahue16th Worcester1/17/2025Erika Uyterhoeven27th Middlesex2/20/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3385 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3083
By Representative Donahue of Worcester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3083) of
Daniel M. Donahue and Erika Uyterhoeven relative to requiring public disclosures by publicly-
traded corporate taxpayers. Revenue.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2725 OF 2023-2024.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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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:
1 SECTION X. Section 83 of chapter 62C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016
2Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking from the last sentence of subsection (a) the
3words, “; but the report or amended report shall be available for public inspection only after the
4state secretary has expunged the name of the taxpayer and the location, including street address,
5of the taxpayer’s principal office as required by subsection (n).”
6 SECTION Y. Said Section 83, as so appearing, is further amended by striking the period
7at the end of subsection (m) and replacing it with the following: --, together with a list of any
8corporations required to file in the preceding year that failed to file a report in that year. 2 of 2
9 SECTION Z. Said Section 83, as so appearing, is further amended by striking subsection
10(n) and replacing it with the following: -- (n) The state secretary shall make all information
11contained in the reports required under this section for all filing corporations available to the
12public on an ongoing basis in the form of a searchable database accessible through the internet.
13The state secretary shall make available and set charges that cover the cost to the state of
14providing copies on appropriate computer-readable media of the entire database for reports filed
15during each calendar year, as well as hard copies of an individual annual report for a specific
16corporation. No report for any corporation for a particular tax year shall be publicly available
17until the first day of the third calendar year that follows the calendar year in which the particular
18tax year ends.