News Release (February 7, 1974) TESC junior discusses her experience completing a Senate testimony
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News Release (February 7, 1974) TESC junior discusses her experience completing a Senate testimony
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7 February 1974
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The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
98505
for additional informat1.on
Judy Annis, 866-6128
for immediate release
February J, 19]4
BELLEVUE JUNIOR O;F;FERS SENATE. TESTIMONY
She t s enrolled in an academic program called "Power and Decision l1aking Ln
American Society," but this quarter she's been studying that topic first hand ""~.,..
as
a \-litnessbefore two different State Senate Committees.
Chris Meserve, a 20-year~0Id Bellevue junior at The Evergreen State College,
has been described by her faculty sponsor as "The state authority" on the laws governing
charitable. contributions.
She spent last Winter Quarter working for passage of the
Charitable Contributions Act whf.Le serving an internship in the Office of the Governor
--- and the past summer working with the Division of Professional Licensing of the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
The act, which requires charitable organizations to register vdth the Division
of Professional Licensing and report how much of the funds they raise go to charities,
to their own organizations,
until January I of this year,
and to professional fund raisers, did not go into effect
Miss Meserve reports.
"Many of the organizations
affected by it just don't want to register, so they've offered amendments to the original
bill which would weaken its affect," she said.
The Washington Commission on Consumer Interest asked Miss Meserve to testify
against those amendments before the Senate Consti.tution and Elections Committee and the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
weaken the bill have failed.
She reports that so far, the
:amendments which would
~ut, she adds, the amendment she helped author, which would
Dick
Nichols. Director
Infor mation
Services
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exempt religious o~ganizations from registering if they were soliticing funds for
religious purposes, has moved from one Senate Committee.
The Bellevue three-year Evergreen doesn't expect to be called for additional
testimony.
Mrs.
Carl Meserve of
graduate
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But it's likely lawmakers have not seen the last of th~ daughter of Mr. and
2443 129th S.E. She's studying political science, and the 1971
of Newport High School says she hopes to attend
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law school.
