Contribution and Expenditure Reports (C&E Reports) and City Campaign Finance Reports are required to be filed with the City Clerk's office at various times as required by state law or city code. For specific reporting requirements and filing deadlines, contact the T exas Secretary of State Elections Division at 800-252-VOTE (8683), Texas Ethics Commission at 512-463-5800 or …
Filing a Report. Local filers who must file with a Local Authority include those running for and/or holding an office that may include county offices (county commissioner, tax assessor/collector, constable, justice of the peace, sheriff, etc.), city offices (mayor, council member, secretary, etc.), or political subdivision offices (school board, community college trustee, municipal utility ...
Filing A Campaign Finance Report. Filers who run for and/or hold statewide offices and multi-county offices that may include Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Railroad Commissioner, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, State Chair of political party, Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, Multi-county District Attorney, State …
Oct 01, 2019 · This guide is a summary of the judicial campaign finance regulations set out in Title 15 (chs. 251-259) of the Election Code and in the rules adopted by the Texas Ethics Commission ("Commission"). This guide applies to all candidates for and officeholders in the following offices: judge of a statutory probate court.
Contribution and Expenditure Reports (C&E Reports) and City Campaign Finance Reports are required to be filed with the City Clerk's office at various times as required by state law or city code.
To view data of Campaign Finance Reports submitted to the Clerk's Office, you can visit the search page or dataset page.
A candidate for statewide office , the state legislature, State Board of Education, or district attorney must file campaign finance reports with the Texas Ethics Commission. The candidate must file an Appointment of a Campaign Treasurer by a Candidate Form (Form CTA) with the Texas Ethics Commission when he or she becomes a candidate even if he or she does not intend to accept campaign contributions or make campaign expenditures.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency that administers and enforces federal campaign election laws. The FEC is responsible for disclosing campaign finance information, enforcing limits and prohibitions on contributions, and overseeing public funding of presidential elections. According to the FEC, an individual becomes a federal candidate and must begin reporting campaign finances once he or she has either raised or spent $5,000 in his or her campaign. Within fifteen days of this benchmark, the candidate must register with the FEC and designate an official campaign committee, which is responsible for the funds and expenditures of the campaign. This committee must have an official treasurer and cannot support any candidate but the one who registered it. Detailed financial reports are then made to the FEC every financial quarter after the individual is registered. Reports are also made before primaries and before the general election.
Federal Election Commission decision, the court held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited.
Federal Election Commission decision, the court overturned biennial aggregate campaign contribution limits, and held that individuals may contribute to as many federal candidates as they want, but may only contribute up to the federal limit in each case.
Filers who run for and/or hold statewide offices and multi-county offices that may include Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Railroad Commissioner, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, State Chair of political party, Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, Multi-county District Attorney, State Board of Education, Supreme Court Justice, Court of Appeals Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, and district judges must file with the Texas Ethics Commission.
If you are a new filer and are unsure whether you file with TEC or a local filing authority, see "Filing as TEC or Local Filer?". All TEC filers will be assigned an 8 digit Filer ID number, sometimes called an account number, like 00049300.
The filing application can be started by using a personal computer or laptop, a Mac desktop computer or MacBook, or a Tablet to bring up a browser window. Acceptable browsers and their minimal version level are:
presiding judge or judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals; chief justice or justice of a court of appeals; district judge; judge of a statutory county court; and. judge of a statutory probate court. This guide does not apply to candidates for and officeholders of justice of the peace. For those candidates and officeholders, ...
This prohibition does not apply if the committee in connection with which the ineligibility arose has not accepted more than $5,000 in political contributions or made more than $5,000 in political expenditures in any semiannual report ing period. A person who violates this prohibition is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed three times the amount of political contributions accepted or political expenditures made in violation of this provision.
A hand-delivered Form JCTA takes effect on the date of delivery. A Form JCTA that is mailed or sent by common carrier takes effect on the date of the post office cancellation mark or common carrier receipt mark.
Candidates and Officeholders. Candidates for and holders of the judicial offices listed here, as well as specific-purpose political committees supporting such candidates or officeholders, must file periodic campaign finance reports. The appropriate filing authority depends on the office sought or held.
A judge who has a campaign treasurer appointment on file is a "candidate" for purposes of title 15 and is subject to all the regulations applicable to candidates. A judge who is not a candidate, as defined in Election Code section 251.001 (1), is subject to the regulations applicable to officeholders.
A filing fee paid to a filing authority to qualify for a place on a ballot is a campaign expenditure that may not be made before filing a campaign treasurer appointment form. Also, a judicial candidate or officeholder may not accept any campaign or officeholder contributions outside of a specified period.
A candidate may terminate a campaign treasurer appointment by filing an amended campaign treasurer appointment or by filing a final report. A campaign treasurer may terminate his or her own appointment by notifying both the candidate and the filing authority in writing.
This guide is a summary of the campaign finance regulations applicable to political committees. These regulations are set out in Title 15 of the Texas Election Code (Chs. 251 - 259) and in the rules adopted by the Texas Ethics Commission.
If only a small portion of a PAC's activity is in connection with state and local elections in Texas, the political committee may be an out-of-state political committee and therefore not required to file a campaign treasurer appointment in Texas. See " Out-of-State Political Committees " in this guide.
The appropriate filing authority for a political committee that supports or opposes a measure, other than a school district bond measure, depends on who will vote on the measure. The filing requirements for a specific-purpose political committee that is involved in a school district bond measure are addressed in the previous section in this guide
Unlike general-purpose political committees, specific-purpose political committees do not have the option of selecting monthly filing. Some specific-purpose committees do have the option of selecting modified reporting. See " Modified Reporting Schedule " in this guide.
A political committee should consider its choice of a campaign treasurer carefully because the treasurer is responsible for fulfilling the duties described in the following section. The committee should also be sure that the treasurer is aware that he or she may be subject to fines or criminal penalties for failure to fulfill those duties.
Starting January 1, 2020, new itemization thresholds apply to all campaign finance reports. These changes mean that the dollar thresholds for itemizing contributions, expenditures, and other activities in a report are now higher. For example, the requirement to itemize a political contribution has increased from $50 to $90, and only political contributions that exceed $90 must be itemized when accepted on or after January 1, 2020. The higher itemization thresholds have been updated on the paper forms and in these instructions. For a full list of the changes, please go to new Texas Ethics Commission Rules § 18.31 on our website: https://www.ethics.state.tx.us/rules/adopted/2016-2020/adopted_Mar_2019.php.
The campaign treasurer of a political committee must maintain records of all the information necessary to file the committee's reports of contributions and expenditures. The campaign treasurer must maintain the records for two years after the deadline for the report.