FSPAC

Political Action Committee generations of student leaders Contributions to the Fraternity and Sorority PAC are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. Federal law requires the Fraternity and Sorority PAC to use its best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation and employer for each individual whose contributions are $200 or more in a calendar year. Funds received in response to this solicitation will be subject to federal contribution limits and source prohibitions. Contributions are limited by law to $5,000 per year from any individual or PAC, and contributions from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors, and foreign nationals are prohibited. 5 Rosemary Brevard, AΔΠ Robert Broadwell, ΠKΦ Barbara Jones Brotherton, ΔZ Katy Brown, AXΩ and Brian Brown, ΔKE Barbara Bruning, AΩΠ Sandy Burba, ΓΦΒ Karen Campbell, ΔZ Cathie Cardelucci, KAΘ Kathryn Cashin, AΔΠ Robert Caudill, FIJI Jennifer Champlin, AXΩ Don Chandler, ΔΣΦ Anne Charnock, AΔΠ Scott Cohon, AEΠ Alan Copeland, ΘΧ Nancy Craig, AΦ Kendall Cusick-Rindone, KAΘ Jennifer Daurora, AXΩ M. Walt Davis, ΘΧ Delta Gamma Fraternity Housing Corp - Gamma Xi Anastasia Dolan, AΩΠ Doug Donaldson, ZΨ D. Corrine Doty, AΦ Daniel Dungan, ΔTΔ Catherine Dunlap, XΩ Melissa Dupee, AΔΠ Larry Eby, ΠKA James Estes, KA Order Roxanne Evans, ΣK Mary Evers, XΩ James Fell, ΣX Marilyn Fordham, ΔΓ Nancy Frick, KAΘ Letitia Fulkerson, XΩ Michelle Geiger, KAΘ Ruth Gallager, AΦ Cassie Gerhardt, AXΩ Heather Granato, KAΘ Linda Grandolfo, AOΠ M. Tyler Griffin, KA Order F. Joseph Halcomb III, ΣAE Kathleen Halfon, AΦ Carrie Hancock, AΔΠ Kandyce Harber, AOΠ Lyn Harris, XΩ Miekeleen Hart, AXΩ Dan Hartmann, ΛXA Glenn Hay, ΔΣΦ Jennifer Healy, AXΩ Anne Helliwell, AXΩ Michael Homyak, ΣX Kristen Hopper, AXΩ Bruce Howard, ΔΥ John Josendale, KA Order Erin Killingsworth, AΔΠ Alice King, AΦ Dana Kleine, XΩ Donna McGrath Klinge, AXΩ Kristin Koppen, AXΩ Mardi Swartz Kunik, ΣΔT MaryPat Lambke, AXΩ Linda Landwirth, AXΩ Karen Ledbetter, KAΘ Malcolm Liles, KA Order Mary Ann Lillie, ΔΔΔ Molly Lindner, AXΩ D. F. Lindstrom, ATΩ Katherine Littler, AXΩ Bruce J. Loewenerg, ΔΣΦ Brian Loucks, ΣX Michael Loy, ΠKΦ Rae Maier, ΠΒΦ Yvette Martinez, AXΩ Patrick McGonigle, ΔΣΦ Mary Hollis McGreevy, AΔΠ Bob McKenney, ATΩ Susan McNeice, AΦ Jeffrey Moritz, ΔTΔ Diane Murphy, AXΩ Braxton Newman and Davis Newman Joel Nickles, KA Order Anthony Mario Noce, ΠKΦ Carol Nunnally, ΔΓ Erica Ochs, KAΘ John Oest, FIJI Alarie Ornburn, AXΩ Mary Frances Pack, ΔΓ Joseph Palazzolo, ΣΠ Mike Patton, ΣX Dana Patton, AΔΠ and Dave Patton, ΣAE Kelly Pelletier, AΔΠ Michael Petrik, ΔΣΦ Kevin Petschow, ATΩ Scott Petty, FIJI Kelly Williams Pfister, AXΩ Eugenia Pierson, XΩ Jack Plumlee, KA Order Sharon Popp, XΩ Victoria Pough, XΩ Rissa Reddan, AΩΠ Danna Redmond, XΩ Jaime Riley, ΣK John Robertson, ATΩ Leslie Rogers, AΔΠ Randall Ross, ΠKA Kim Rutkowski, ΔZ Daniel Ryan, ΠKA Russell J. Saloom, KA Order Mandy Savage, AΔΠ C. Edward Schmidt Jr., KA Order Jacqueline Schools, AΦ J.W. Schulz, KA Order William M. Scott, ΣX Mari-jean Siehl, AXΩ William Sigmon, ΠKΦ Bill Skipper, KA Order Marlene Small, AXΩ Torrey Smith, AΔΠ Michelle Smith, ΔZ Kevan Snyder, AXΩ Leslie Sorenson, KAΘ Tim Souza, AΓΡ Lyle E. Sprinkle, ΔΧ Sandi Straetker, AΦ Laura Sweet, ΣΣΣ James Tallman, KA Order Jane Tankersley, XΩ Alison Tatlow, AXΩ Ronald Taylor, KA Order Christi Tennyson, AXΩ Lucy Thomas, AΔΠ Jandy Thompson, AΦ Jeanine Triplett, ΔZ Tulare County Panhellenic Conference, Inc. Mary Beth Tully, AΦ Dawn Victor-Herring, AΔΠ Lindsay Vise, AXΩ Kirk Walden, FIJI Liana M. Wallace, AΓΔ Carol Hilbert Welsch, ΔΓ Lynn Whatley, KA Order Linda Allison Winkelman, AΦ Lee Ann Witt, ΔZ Bob Wolfley, ΦΔΘ Frank Wrenn, ΠKΦ Albert Wurster, ΣN Mandy Wushinske, KAΘ Ruthe Wynne, ΓΦΒ Ronald Yates, ΣX Lisa Robinette Youngers, KAΘ Susan Zabriskie, AΦ Pamela Zimmerman, AΔΠ 2 021 has been an extremely busy and historic legislative session in Congress, where the focus remains on funding the American response to the COVID-19 pandemic and helping restore the economy to its pre-pandemic condition if possible. While the FSPAC does not lobby directly on federal issues, it is supportive of the key legislative issues the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) and National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) support each year. A lawmaker's support or opposition of the NIC/NPC's legislative priorities is a primary consideration of the FSPAC board when it determines which candidates to fund each year. The COVID-19 pandemic has washed away any chances of Congress using time in 2021 to pass a long-overdue reauthorization of the nation's higher education laws. Instead, the committees with jurisdiction over higher education have been almost entirely focused on legislative responses to the pandemic's effect on education at all levels. That has led the NPC/NIC to delay reintroduction of its top legislative priority: the Collegiate Freedom of Association Act (CFAA). This bill would make it clear schools could not punish individual students for joining the recognized or unrecognized organizations of their choice, especially single-sex organizations. In 2019, the CFAA was introduced with bipartisan support and actually was included in the House Education Committee's bill reauthorizing higher education programs. Unfortunately, that broader bill to which CFAA was attached never made it to the full House for a vote before the pandemic hit. The NIC and NPC are working with past CFAA supporters to reintroduce the bill in early 2022. The NIC/NPC continue to push for the passage of the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (CHIA) (H.R. 2421/S. 265). This legislation would allow ALL not-for-profit student housing to receive grants from foundations for building, maintaining, or improving student housing. Passage of CHIA would unlock the potential for national fraternity and sorority foundations to accept tax-deductible october 2021 legislative uPdate (Continued on page 6)

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