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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Election Code § 253.005: EXPENDITURE FROM UNLAWFUL CONTRIBUTION.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. ELECTION CODE
  2. TITLE 15. REGULATING POLITICAL FUNDS AND CAMPAIGNS
  3. CHAPTER 253. RESTRICTIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES
  4. SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL RESTRICTIONS

(a) A person may not knowingly make or authorize a political expenditure wholly or partly from a political contribution the person knows to have been made in violation of this chapter.

(b) This section does not apply to a political expenditure that is:

(1) prohibited by Section 253.101; or

(2) made from a political contribution made in violation of Subchapter F.

(c) A person who violates this section commits an offense. An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 763, Sec. 2, eff. June 16, 1995.

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