Sec. 253.168. EXPENDITURE LIMITS. (a) For each election in which the candidate is involved, a complying candidate may not knowingly make or authorize political expenditures that in the aggregate exceed:
(1) for a statewide judicial office, $2 million;
(2) for the office of chief justice or justice, court of appeals:
(A) $500,000, if the population of the judicial district is more than one million; or
(B) $350,000, if the population of the judicial district is one million or less; or
(3) for an office other than an office covered by Subdivision (1) or (2):
(A) $350,000, if the population of the judicial district is more than one million;
(B) $200,000, if the population of the judicial district is 250,000 to one million; or
(C) $100,000, if the population of the judicial district is less than 250,000.
(b) A person who violates this section is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed three times the amount by which the political expenditures made in violation of this section exceed the applicable limit prescribed by Subsection (a).
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 763, Sec. 1, eff. June 16, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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