Tex. Government Code § 302.020: PERMITTED EXPENDITURES.

A speaker candidate may expend campaign funds for:

(1) travel for the speaker candidate and the speaker candidate's immediate family and campaign staff;

(2) the employment of clerks and stenographers;

(3) clerical and stenographic supplies;

(4) printing and stationery;

(5) office rent;

(6) telephone, telegraph, postage, freight, and express expenses;

(7) advertising and publicity;

(8) the expenses of holding political and other meetings designed to promote the candidacy;

(9) the employment of legal counsel; and

(10) the retirement of campaign loans.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.