Tex. Gov't Code § 556.004 · Chapter 556. POLITICAL ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN PUBLIC ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS
PROHIBITED ACTS OF AGENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A state agency may not use any money under its control, including appropriated money, to finance or otherwise support the candidacy of a person for an office in the legislative, executive, or judicial branch of state government or of the government of the United States. This prohibition extends to the direct or indirect employment of a person to perform an action described by this subsection.
(b) A state officer or employee may not use a state-owned or state-leased motor vehicle for a purpose described by Subsection (a).
(c) A state officer or employee may not use official authority or influence or permit the use of a program administered by the state agency of which the person is an officer or employee to interfere with or affect the result of an election or nomination of a candidate or to achieve any other political purpose.
(d) A state employee may not coerce, attempt to coerce, command, restrict, attempt to restrict, or prevent the payment, loan, or contribution of any thing of value to a person or political organization for a political purpose.
(e) For purposes of Subsection (c), a state officer or employee does not interfere with or affect the results of an election or nomination if the individual's conduct is permitted by a law relating to the individual's office or employment and is not otherwise unlawful.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1498, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.556.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
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Gov't Code § 556.004. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 556.003STATE EMPLOYEES' RIGHTS.Printed as Section 556.004
- Tex. Gov't Code § 556.007TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.Printed as Section 556.004(c)
- Tex. Gov't Code § 556.008COMPENSATION PROHIBITION.Printed as Section 556.004(a)
- Tex. Gov't Code § 556.009NOTICE OF PROHIBITIONS.Printed as Sections 556.004, 556.005, 556.006, 556.007, and 556.008
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