Texas Election Code

§ 253.005 — EXPENDITURE FROM UNLAWFUL CONTRIBUTION

EL § 253.005Title 15. REGULATING POLITICAL FUNDS AND CAMPAIGNS · Ch. 253. RESTRICTIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES · Art. A. GENERAL RESTRICTIONS

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(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.

Legislative 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.