Rep. Kevin Kiley: “I am introducing the No Tax Dollars for Riots Act, legislation to deny public funding and tax-exempt status to “nonprofits” that organize riots.
The group known as CHIRLA played a central role in the chaos in LA after receiving over $34 million in public funding.”
From the floor: “Mr. Speaker, this week I am introducing the No Tax Dollars for Riots Act, a bill that will assure that public funding is not used to create the sort of horrifying scenes that we just witnessed in Los Angeles.
In the wake of the LA riots, we have learned that a group claiming nonprofit status, known as CHIRLA, received $34 million in state funding and some federal funding as well. This group played a central role in organizing the riots, providing real-time locations to the rioters of where federal officers could be found. Several of these federal officers were subsequently assaulted with bricks and Molotov cocktails.
My bill will assure that an organization like this, whose officers are convicted of assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers or of organizing, promoting, encouraging, participating in, or carrying on a riot under Section 111 or 2101 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, loses their nonprofit status and is ineligible for federal funding going forward.
This is a common-sense step that will prevent the sort of lawlessness that we saw in Los Angeles from reappearing in our state or elsewhere in the country. I yield back.”