years of litigation, in October 2017, the IRS signed a consent decree in Federal court and admitted to targeting conservative organizations from 2010 through 2013. The IRS confessed that its treatment of [conservative organizations] during the tax-exempt determinations process, including screening their applications based on their names or policy positions, subjecting those applications to heightened scrutiny and inordinate delays, and demanding of some Plaintiffs’ information that TIGTA [U.S. Treasury Inspector General, Tax Administration] determined was unnecessary to the agency’s determination of their tax-exempt status, was wrong. . (15) It is antithetical to the First Amendment that the IRS or any Federal government agency would ever be used to target an organization because of its political beliefs, or who its donors might be. As such, these organizations need to be protected to prevent events like what transpired at the IRS between 2010 and 2013. 308. Protecting privacy of donors to tax-exempt organizations (a) Short title This section may be cited as the Speech Privacy Act of 2023 . (b) Restrictions on collection of donor information (1) Restrictions An entity of the Federal government may not collect or require the submission of information on the identification of any donor to a tax-exempt organization. (2) Exceptions Paragraph (1) does not apply to the following: (A) The Internal Revenue Service, acting lawfully pursuant to section 6033 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any successor provision. (B) The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, acting lawfully pursuant to section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 ( 2 U.S.C. 1604 ). (C) The Federal Election Commission, acting lawfully pursuant to section 510 of title 36, United States Code. (D) An entity acting pursuant to a lawful order of a court or administrative body which has the authority under law to direct the entity to collect or require the submission of the information, but only to the extent