CONTRIBUTIONS PROHIBITED
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case Texans for Free Enterprise v. Texas Ethics Commission (2013)
Most recently applied in 1A Auto, Inc. v. Director of the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (September 2018)
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A corporation or labor organization may not make a political contribution that is not authorized by this subchapter.
(b) A corporation or labor organization may not make a political contribution in connection with a recall election, including the circulation and submission of a petition to call an election.
(c) A person who violates this section commits an offense. An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.