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April 4, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2024-01: Canvassing literature and scripts are not public communications, coordinated communications or coordinated expenditures
      
      Texas Majority PAC’s (TMP) proposed canvassing activities are not public communications, coordinated communications or coordinated expenditures under Commission regulations. However, any data acquired from TMP’s canvassing efforts and shared ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions February 27, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2024-02: Federal candidate may request reimbursement from nonfederal sources for costs of brochures
      
      Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Citizens for Waters (requestors) may solicit and receive reimbursement from nonfederal sources for brochure costs because the reimbursements would comply with the source prohibitions, amount limitations ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions February 2, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-11: Hybrid PAC may solicit earmarked contributions to identified leading opponents of incumbent officeholders
      
      The Commission determined that contributions received and forwarded by VoteDown PAC, based upon preselected criteria to identify leading opponents to incumbent officeholders, will be considered earmarked contributions attributable only to ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions February 1, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  Pending advisory opinion requests as of January 31, 2024
      
      Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.AOR 2024-01Whether ...Read more
      
      
      
        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions January 31, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-09: Senator’s leadership PAC does not share contribution limit with nonfederal committee
      
      Senator Catherine Cortez Masto may establish a nonfederal committee to raise and spend funds exclusively in connection with nonfederal elections, subject to the contribution limits and source prohibitions of the ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions January 23, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-10: Fictional entertainment program qualifies for the media exemption
      
      Sony Pictures Television Inc.’s (Sony) production and distribution of a fictional entertainment program that includes a candidate for U.S. Senate as a cast member is exempt from regulation under the ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions January 12, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-12: Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands qualifies as a state party committee
      
      The Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands (Committee) qualifies as a state party committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act.BackgroundThe determination of a state party organization’s status ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions January 9, 2024
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-08: Nonconnected committee may deduct a fee from earmarked contributions
      
      Cowboy Analytics, LLC, proposed to form a nonconnected conduit political committee (“PAC”) to solicit funds for itself and earmarked contributions for federal candidates that the PAC supports. The Commission concluded ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions December 15, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  New York special election reporting: 3rd Congressional District (2024)
      
      New York has scheduled a special election to fill the U.S. House seat in the 3rd Congressional District that became vacant when Representative George Santos was expelled from Congress. The ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions December 5, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  Pending advisory opinion requests as of November 30, 2023
      
      Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.AOR 2023-08Solicitation ...Read more
      
      
      
        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions November 20, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-07: County party committee not affiliated with state party
      
      The Upshur County Republican Executive Committee (Upshur County) and the West Virginia Republican Party (State Party) are not affiliated for purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (the Act) contribution ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions November 6, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  Pending advisory opinion requests as of November 1, 2023
      
      Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.AOR 2023-06Whether ...Read more
      
      
      
        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions August 11, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AOR 2023-05: Alamo PAC
      
      On August 10, 2023, the Commission considered an advisory opinion request from Alamo PAC, the leadership PAC of U.S. Senator John Cornyn. The request asked whether the PAC may establish ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions August 1, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  Pending advisory opinion requests as of July 31, 2023
      
      Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.AOR 2023-05 ...Read more
      
      
      
        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions July 18, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-04: Congressman may use campaign funds to pay for security film on his home windows
      
      Guy for Congress (the committee), the principal campaign committee of Congressman Guy Reschenthaler, may use campaign funds to purchase and install a special security film on the windows of his ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions May 9, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-03: State party committee’s establishment of legal fund to challenge state law
      
      The Colorado Republican State Central Committee (the committee) and its chair may establish a legal fund to challenge a state law without the funds received and spent constituting contributions or ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions May 1, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-01: Use of campaign funds for travel expenses
      
      U.S. Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán may use campaign funds to pay for certain expenses incurred in connection with events held by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), including travel expenses for ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions April 4, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2023-02: Corporations and their separate segregated funds are no longer affiliated
      
      After a spinoff, Humana Inc. (Humana) and KAH Hospice Company Inc. (KAH Hospice), and their respective separate segregated funds (SSFs), are no longer affiliated.BackgroundIn August 2021, Humana acquired ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions January 13, 2023
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2022-25: Senator may use campaign funds for home security installations and upgrades
      
      A Senator’s principal campaign committee may use campaign funds to pay the costs of certain security installations and upgrades to the Senator’s homes to protect against threats arising from his ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions December 21, 2022
    
    From: Information Division
  AO 2022-22: A corporation may sell NFTs to committees in the ordinary course of business
      
      DataVault Holdings, Inc. (DataVault) may create and sell nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to political committees for use in fundraising in the ordinary course of its business, at the usual and normal ...
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        FEC Record
          
            in: Advisory opinions Next


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