Source: https://www.ethics.state.tx.us/rules/commission/ch26.php
Timestamp: 2019-10-20 22:39:01
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§26', '§26', '§26', '§26', '§26', '§26', '§255', '§255']

Commission Rules Chapter 26
§26.1. Disclosure Statement
§26.2 Newsletter of Public Officer of a Political Subdivision
§26.3. Legislative Advertising
§26.5. Code of Fair Campaign Practices
§26.7. Use of the Term "Reelect" in Political Advertising
§26.1. Disclosure Statement (amendments effective January 1, 2017)
(a)A disclosure statement that is required by §255.001, Election Code, must contain the words "political advertising" or any recognizable abbreviation, and must:
(1) campaign buttons, pins, or hats, or on objects whose size makes printing the disclosure impractical;
(i) is not an officeholder, candidate, or political committee; and
(ii) did not make an expenditure exceeding $100 in a reporting period for political advertising beyond the basic cost of hardware messaging software and bandwidth;
(i) contains the disclosure statement; or
ii) is exempt from containing the disclosure statement under Subsection (c)(3).
(d) For the purposes of Subsection (c), an "Internet social media profile webpage" is an Internet webpage on a website where members of the public may, for no charge, connect electronically with other members of the public and share text, images, videos, and similar forms of communications.
For purposes of §255.003 of the Election Code, a newsletter of a public officer of a political subdivision is not political advertising if:
(2) It includes no more than eight personally phrased references (such as the public officer’s name, “I”, “me”, “the city council member”) on a page that is 8 ½” x 11” or larger, with a reasonable reduction in the number of such personally phrased references in pages smaller than 8 ½” x 11”; and
Political advertising as defined by the Election Code, Section 251.001(16) (concerning Definitions), does not constitute legislative advertising under the Government Code, Section 305.027 (concerning Required Disclosure on Legislative Advertising).
A candidate or political committee that has filed a copy of the Code of Fair Campaign Practices as provided by the Election Code, Chapter 258, may indicate that fact on political advertising by including the following or a substantially similar statement: (Name of the candidate or political committee, as appropriate) subscribes to the Code of Fair Campaign Practices.
A person or candidate may, in the event of redistricting, use the term "reelect" in a campaign for elective office only if the candidate is the elected incumbent of an office that represented any part of the new or renumbered district prior to the redistricting.