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The Regulation Council must adopt, after public hearings have been held, those rules and regulations needed to carry out the Public Employees Charitable Campaign. Said regulations shall contain without limitation:\n(a) The standards to be observed in every campaign for the collection of funds, so as to ensure that no coercion, intimidation or threat shall be used on public employees to authorize deductions from their salaries to be donated to charitable institutions or for them to take part or collaborate in any way with said campaign.\n(b) The salary deduction authorization form that public employees shall voluntarily fill out.\n(c) The term during which the campaign will be conducted.\n(d) The minimum information or orientation that will be offered to public employees with regard to said campaign.\n(e) The conditions that must be complied with by the charitable entities that avail themselves of the benefits of the salary deduction system provided in this chapter.\n(f) The requirements and conditions that must be complied with by any designated entity, to coordinate and conduct the Public Employees Charitable Campaign and to mediate in the distribution and remitting of the funds

ts and conditions that must be complied with by any designated entity, to coordinate and conduct the Public Employees Charitable Campaign and to mediate in the distribution and remitting of the funds collected by virtue of the salary deduction system provided in this chapter.\nSaid regulations shall be filed with the Secretary of each House of the Legislature and shall be submitted to the Committees on Government of each House which shall have a term of not more than thirty (30) days to ratify it, reject it, or require the Regulations Committee to incorporate the amendments or modifications that said Committees agree upon. If said Committees do not act on the regulations within said term, the same shall be understood as ratified by the Legislature. Once this procedure has been complied with, the regulations of the Public Employees Charitable Campaign shall not take effect until all employees are notified of its adoption by the means the Council may deem best.\nHistory —Aug. 11, 1988, No. 168, § 7, eff. July 1, 1989.