{"id":10200,"date":"2016-06-26T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2016-06-28T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:56:09","slug":"update-final-draft-of-ngo-bill-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2016\/06\/26\/update-final-draft-of-ngo-bill-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; Final Draft of NGO Bill Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>A\u00a0final draft of the bill was published<\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday 22 June 2016.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%97-%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%94-%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA-%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99-22.6.16.docx\">here<\/a>\u00a0to access the bill in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the bill still undermines NGOs and seriously impacts their legitimacy, the final bill is an improvement on previous versions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final bill does not include the \u2018tag requirement\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Representatives of organizations to whom the bill applies will not need to declare their funding sources when speaking before a Knesset Committee. Instead, the final draft of the bill includes a requirement on representatives to declare their funding sources when registering to attend a Committee hearing.<\/li>\n<li>The bill will apply to donations received from 2017 onwards. The significance of this provision is that the bill will not be applied retroactively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bill will be voted on in the Committee tomorrow,\u00a0Monday 27 June 2016. It will then proceed to a vote before the plenum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to access an updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anti-NGO-Bills-Overview-Updated-June-2016-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Overview of Anti-NGO Bills in the Knesset<\/a>, prepared by Debbie Gild-Hayo, Director of Policy Advocacy at ACRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information please see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Update-on-NGO-Bill-Letter-from-31-Civil-Society-Organizations-and-others.pdf\">letter signed by\u00a031 non profit organisations<\/a>\u00a0that was sent to Members of Knesset in advance of a\u00a0hearing in the Committee on 25 May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Position-Paper-NGO-Bill-Updated-Feb-2016.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read\u00a0ACRI\u2019s\u00a0<strong>position paper<\/strong>\u00a0written by Attorney Debbie Gild-Hayo, Director of Policy Advocacy at ACRI (updated February 2016).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2016\/05\/24\/urgent-call-to-action-do-not-promote-the-ngo-bill\/\">Urgent call to action &#8211; do not promote the NGO Bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A new Transparency Law?\" href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2015\/11\/05\/a-new-transparency-law\/\">A New Transparency Law?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Marking out human rights organizations\" href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2015\/11\/25\/marking-out-human-rights-organizations\/\">Marking out Human Rights Organizations\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ACRI\u2019s response to the Draft NGO Funding Bill\" href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2015\/11\/02\/acris-response-to-the-draft-ngo-funding-bill\/\">ACRI\u2019s response to the draft NGO Funding Bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0final draft of the bill was published\u00a0on Wednesday 22 June 2016.\u00a0 &nbsp; Please click\u00a0here\u00a0to access the bill in Hebrew. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2016\/06\/26\/update-final-draft-of-ngo-bill-released\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[179,12],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-democratic-legislation","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","tag-anti-democratic-legislation-2","tag-in-the-knesset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10208,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}