Bill Text: TX HB1447 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to campaign contribution limits for certain offices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-21 - Filed [HB1447 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1447-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 1447 | |
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| relating to campaign contribution limits for certain offices. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 253, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 253.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 253.008. LIMITATION ON CERTAIN CAMPAIGN | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) In this section, "candidate for statewide | ||
| office" does not include a candidate for statewide judicial office, | ||
| as defined by Section 253.152. | ||
| (b) A person may not knowingly make or authorize the making | ||
| of a campaign contribution to a candidate for statewide office or | ||
| the legislature, or to a specific-purpose committee supporting the | ||
| candidate or opposing the candidate's opponent, for the primary or | ||
| general election in which the candidate is involved in an amount | ||
| that exceeds 50 times the amount of the contribution limits for an | ||
| election applicable to a federal candidate under the Federal | ||
| Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. Section 30101 et seq.). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 253.008, Election Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a campaign contribution made on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A campaign contribution made before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
| date the contribution was made, and the contribution is not | ||
| aggregated with campaign contributions made on or after that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
