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Texas Regulations § 22.1 Certain Campaign Treasurer Appointments Required before Political Activity Begins

Up to Chapter 22: Restrictions On Contributions And Expenditures

Regulation Text

(a) An individual must file a campaign treasurer appointment with the proper authority before accepting a campaign contribution or making or authorizing a campaign expenditure.
(1) An officeholder may accept an officeholder contribution and make or authorize an officeholder expenditure without a campaign treasurer appointment on file.
(2) An officeholder who does not have a campaign treasurer appointment on file may not accept a campaign contribution or make or authorize a campaign expenditure.
(b) A political committee may not accept political contributions exceeding the amount specified for making political contributions or making or authorizing political expenditures in Tex. Elec. Code §253.031(b), as amended by Figure 1 in 1 TAC § 18.31 without filing a campaign treasurer appointment with the appropriate filing authority.
(c) Unless the committee's campaign treasurer appointment was filed not later than the 30th day before the appropriate election day, a political committee may not knowingly make or authorize campaign contributions or campaign expenditures exceeding the amount specified in Tex. Elec. Code §253.031(b), as amended by Figure 1 in 1 TAC § 18.31 to support or oppose a candidate in a primary or general election for the following:
(1) a statewide office;
(2) a seat in the state legislature;
(3) a seat on the State Board of Education;
(4) a multi-county district office; or
(5) a judicial district office filled by voters of only one county.
(d) This section does not apply to the county executive committee of a political party except as provided in Chapter 20, Subchapter I of this title (relating to Rules Applicable to a Political Party's County Executive Committee).

History

The provisions of this §22.1 adopted to be effective December 31, 1993, 18 TexReg 9744; Amended to be effective September 19, 2001, 26 TexReg 7118; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 51, December 20, 2019, TexReg 7883 , eff. 1/1/2020 ; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 48, November 27, 2020, TexReg 8513 , eff. 1/1/2021 ; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 53, December 31, 2021, TexReg 9235 , eff. 1/3/2022 ; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 47, Number 41, October 14, 2022, TexReg 6823 , eff. 1/1/2023 ; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 44, November 3, 2023, TexReg 6464 , eff. 1/1/2024

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