Tex. Elec. Code § 253.005 · Subchapter A. GENERAL RESTRICTIONS
EXPENDITURE FROM UNLAWFUL CONTRIBUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
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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