Texas Election Code Title 10, Chapter 173 - Primary Election Financing

SUBCHAPTER A PRIMARY ELECTION EXPENSES GENERALLY

• Texas Section 173.001 - State Funds For Primary Authorized
  (a) Subject to legislative appropriation, state funds may be spent as provided by this chapter to pay expenses incurred by a political party in connection...
• Texas Section 173.002 - State Not Liable For Primary Expenses
  The state is not liable for the failure of a political party to pay expenses the party incurs in holding a primary election. Acts 1985,...
• Texas Section 173.003 - Expenses Incurred By County
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the county shall pay all the expenses incurred in connection with early voting in a primary election, except expenses...
• Texas Section 173.004 - State Compensation Of County Chair And Secretary Of County Executive Committee
  (a) The total amount paid with state funds in a particular primary election year for the combined compensation of a county chair and the secretary,...
• Texas Section 173.005 - State Compensation For Training Election Judges
  The maximum hourly rate payable with state funds in a particular primary election year to election judges serving in a primary election for attending training...
• Texas Section 173.006 - Authority To Reduce Primary Costs
  The secretary of state may adopt rules consistent with this code that reduce the cost of primary elections or facilitate the holding of primary elections...
• Texas Section 173.007 - Limiting State Compensation For Polling Places
  (a) The secretary of state may limit the number of primary election polling places for which operating expenses are payable with state funds. (b) Rules...
• Texas Section 173.008 - Limiting State Compensation For Election Personnel
  (a) The secretary of state may limit the number of election clerks in a primary election whose service is payable with state funds. (b) The...
• Texas Section 173.009 - Deadline For Adopting Rules
  A rule adopted by the secretary of state under this subchapter does not apply to a primary election held less than 45 days after the...
• Texas Section 173.010 - Furnishing Rules
  During November preceding each primary election year, the secretary of state shall deliver to the state chair and each county chair of each political party...

SUBCHAPTER B PRIMARY FUND

• Texas Section 173.011 - Financing Of Joint Primary Elections Generally
  (a) This section applies to the financing of joint primary elections notwithstanding and in addition to other applicable provisions of this code. (b) Any surplus...
• Texas Section 173.031 - County Primary Fund
  (a) A county primary fund is created for each county executive committee of a political party holding a primary election. (b) The county primary fund...
• Texas Section 173.032 - State Primary Fund
  (a) A state primary fund is created for the state executive committee of each political party holding a primary election. (b) The state primary fund...
• Texas Section 173.033 - Use Of Primary Fund
  (a) The county primary fund shall be used to pay expenses incurred by the county chair or county executive committee in connection with a primary...
• Texas Section 173.034 - Managing Primary Fund
  (a) The county executive committee shall manage the county primary fund. (b) The state executive committee shall manage the state primary fund. Acts 1985, 69th...
• Texas Section 173.035 - Audit By Secretary Of State
  (a) The secretary of state may have a primary fund audited at any time. (b) The expenses of an audit under this section shall be...

SUBCHAPTER C DISPOSITION OF FILING FEES

• Texas Section 173.036 - State Funds For Audit Requested By Party
  (a) The secretary of state may approve an expenditure of state funds for an audit of the state primary fund on request of the state...
• Texas Section 173.061 - Fee Paid To County Chair
  The county chair shall deposit in the county primary fund each filing fee accompanying an application for a place on the ballot filed with the...
• Texas Section 173.062 - Fee Paid To State Chair Allocated Among County Committees
  (a) The state chair shall allocate the filing fee for a district office accompanying an application for a place on the ballot filed with the...
• Texas Section 173.063 - Fee Retained By State Chair
  The state chair shall deposit in the state primary fund each filing fee accompanying an application for a place on the ballot filed with the...

SUBCHAPTER D STATE FINANCING

• Texas Section 173.064 - Report Of Fees By State Chair
  (a) The state chair shall prepare a report of the filing fees accompanying applications for a place on the ballot filed with the state chair...
• Texas Section 173.081 - Statement Of Estimated Primary Expenses
  (a) Regardless of whether state funds are requested for paying primary expenses, a written statement of estimated expenses to be incurred in connection with a...
• Texas Section 173.082 - Review Of Statement; Approval; Notice
  (a) On receipt of a statement of estimated primary election expenses, the secretary of state shall review the statement to determine which items of estimated...
• Texas Section 173.083 - State Payment Of Estimated Primary Expenses
  (a) The amount of estimated primary election expenses payable with state funds under this section is equal to: (1) for a general primary election, the...
• Texas Section 173.0831 - State Payment Of Start-up Primary Funds
  (a) Not later than the 30th day before the beginning date of the regular filing period for public offices in the general primary election, a...
• Texas Section 173.0832 - Direct Repayment To Authority Conducting Primary Election Under Contract In Certain Counties
  On request of a county election officer of a county with a population of 100,000 or more who conducts a primary election under an election...
• Texas Section 173.084 - Expense Report By Party
  (a) Regardless of whether state funds are requested for paying primary expenses, each county chair and state chair shall prepare a report that includes: (1)...
• Texas Section 173.085 - State Payment Of Excess Primary Expenses
  (a) If the actual expenditure for an item of primary election expense exceeds the amount estimated for the item in the statement of estimated primary...
• Texas Section 173.0851 - Disposition Of Surplus In Primary Fund
  (a) Any surplus remaining in a primary fund shall be remitted to the secretary of state immediately after the final payment from the fund of...
• Texas Section 173.086 - Challenge Of Disbursement Of State Funds
  (a) The authority who submitted a statement of estimated primary election expenses under this subchapter may challenge in a district court in Travis County the...
• Texas Section 173.087 - Liability Of County Chair And County Executive Committee
  The county executive committee is not liable for the debts incurred by the committee or the county chair in connection with a primary election that...
• Texas Section 173.088 - Availability Of Guidelines
  The secretary of state shall make available to each county and state chair, for use in preparing statements and reports under this chapter, any guidelines...

Last modified: September 28, 2016