Tex. Gov't Code § 302.0121 · Subchapter B. CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER: CAMPAIGN FINANCE
DECLARATION OF SPEAKER CANDIDACY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each speaker candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy with the Texas Ethics Commission as provided by this section.
(b) A declaration of speaker candidacy must:
(1) be in writing;
(2) identify the legislative session as to which the candidacy relates; and
(3) include:
(A) the speaker candidate's name;
(B) the speaker candidate's residence or business street address; and
(C) the speaker candidate's telephone number.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a speaker candidate may not knowingly accept a contribution, loan, or promise of a contribution or loan in connection with the speaker candidacy or make or authorize a campaign expenditure at a time when a declaration of candidacy for the candidate is not in effect.
(d) A declaration of speaker candidacy terminates on the earlier of:
(1) the date the speaker candidate files a written statement with the Texas Ethics Commission stating that the candidate has terminated the candidacy; or
(2) the date a speaker is elected for the legislative session as to which the speaker candidate filed the statement.
(e) A former speaker candidate whose declaration of speaker candidacy is terminated under Subsection (d) may make a campaign expenditure in connection with a debt incurred during the period the former speaker candidate's declaration of candidacy was in effect.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 249, Sec. 3.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.302.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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