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Become a Key Person Contact

The Importance of Advocacy

Your contacts are critical to SCACPA’s efforts to promote or oppose legislation in the interests of the accounting profession and the public it serves. Only through your efforts can we generate the necessary clout to pass legislation that will benefit the accounting profession in South Carolina, or block legislation that could be harmful to the profession.
Contacting your local legislator is easy! Simply click here to find your representative’s contact information, click here and go to “bios” under either House or Senate: http://www.scstatehouse.net/index.html
To determine who your local legislators are (you will need your nine-digit zip code to conduct this online search) http://www.scstatehouse.net/cgi-bin/zipcodesearch.exe
Every day in Columbia and in Washington legislators make decisions that affect CPAs. As a Key Person for SCACPA, you can play a vital role in Association’s governmental relations efforts.

SCACPA’s legislative "key person contact" (or KPC) program encourages all members who personally know state and federal legislators to volunteer as liaisons to share SCACPA’s position on key issues.

The effectiveness of SCACPA’s legislative program is determined to a considerable degree by the quality and quantity of the profession's "grassroots" efforts in the legislators' districts. A legislator places great importance on the viewpoints of his/her own constituents.

The CPA back home who validates SCACPA’s position makes a critical difference in the legislative process. You can exercise an important civic right by sharing your views with your representatives in government. As a KPC, you can help legislators understand the impact a given piece of legislation can have on South Carolina, and more importantly, on that legislator's district.

"But I'm too busy to be a KPC!"

As a legislative KPC, you can get the job done from your own home or office with a limited time commitment. Typically, you will be asked by SCACPA to relay messages on legislation no more than one or two times a year.

SCAPCA’s legislative KPC program is flexible. You can devote as little or as much time to it as your schedule permits. Although we hope you will be more involved, all that signing up for the KPC program commits you to is writing a letter or two, making a few phone calls or meeting with your legislator as needed. 

If you volunteer to sign up as a KPC, SCACPA will provide you the "tools" you need to feel comfortable and to be effective. Sign-up using the form below.

Sign Me Up as a KPC!

Learn more about:
Communicating with your Legislator
The State Legislative Process
South Carolina CPA-PAC