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YES. Because CSL is a nonprofit entity and because you will be participating in the program by moderating one of the sessions, you may accept the gift of airfare and hotel accommodations is INCORRECT.

While one of the exceptions to the Amendment 41 gift ban allows covered individuals to accept the payment of reasonable expenses by a nonprofit organization to attend meetings where the covered individual is to deliver a speech or make a presentation or represent the state or local government, the exception also requires that the nonprofit organization receive less than 5% of its funding from for-profit sources. Here, the organization paying the expenses receives more than 5% of its funding from for-profit sources, and therefore you may not rely on this exception to the Amendment 41 gift ban to accept the invitation.

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