California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 6 - Fair Political Practices Commission › Chapter 9.5 - Ethics › Section 18950.3 - Exception: Payments for Travel in Connection with Campaign Activities

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) A payment made
				to an official, who is a candidate for transportation, lodging, or food in
				connection with the official's campaign activities is a contribution to the
				campaign committee of that official.
(b) A payment made to an official by or at
				the behest of a "committee," as defined in Section
				82013(a)
				(including a "controlled committee," or a comparable committee regulated under
				federal law or the laws of another state) for the official's actual travel
				expenses (including food and lodging) or for other actual and allowable
				campaign expenses of the committee is neither income nor a gift to the official
				so long as the expenditures are reportable by the committee in accordance with
				the provisions of Sections
				84100, et seq. or applicable
				federal law or the laws of the state in which the committee exists.
(c) Any other payment for travel from a
				committee to an official not covered by subdivision (a) or (b) above, is income
				or a gift under the Act.
1. New section
				  filed 1-27-93; operative 2-26-93 (Register 93, No. 5).
2. Change
				  without regulatory effect relocating section filed 11-17-94 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 94, No. 46).
3. Change without regulatory
				  effect amending section heading and NOTE filed 7-27-95 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 95, No. 30).
4. Repealer and new section
				  heading and section and amendment of NOTE filed 2-11-2010; operative 3-13-2010.
				  Submitted to OAL for filing pursuant to Fair Political Practices Commission v.
				  Office of Administrative Law, 3 Civil C010924, California Court of Appeal,
				  Third Appellate District, nonpublished decision, April 27, 1992 (FPPC
				  regulations only subject to 1974 Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking
				  requirements and not subject to procedural or substantive review by OAL)
				  (Register 2010, No. 7).
5. Repealer of former section
				  18950.3 and renumbering of former
				  section 18950.4 to section
				  18950.3, including amendment of
				  section heading, section and NOTE, filed 12-23-2013; operative 1-1-2014
				  pursuant to section
				  18312(e)(1)(A),
				  title 2, California Code of Regulations. Submitted to OAL for filing pursuant
				  to Fair Political Practices Commission v. Office of Administrative Law, 3 Civil
				  C010924, California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, nonpublished
				  decision, April 27, 1992 (FPPC regulations only subject to 1974 Administrative
				  Procedure Act rulemaking requirements and not subject to procedural or
				  substantive review by OAL) (Register 2013, No. 52).
6. Amendment of
				  subsection (a) filed 5-12-2021; operative 6-11-2021 pursuant to Cal. Code
				  Regs., tit. 2, section
				  18312(e).
				  Submitted to OAL for filing pursuant to Fair Political Practices Commission v.
				  Office of Administrative Law, 3 Civil C010924, California Court of Appeal,
				  Third Appellate District, nonpublished decision, April 27, 1992 (FPPC
				  regulations only subject to 1974 Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking
				  requirements and not subject to procedural or substantive review by OAL)
				  (Register 2021, No. 20).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 83112,
					 Government Code. Reference: Sections
					 82015,
					 82028 and
					 82030,
					 Government Code.