Texas Ethics Commission - Campaign Finance Guide
for Political Committees

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This guide is a summary of the campaign finance regulations applicable to political committees. These regulations are set out in Title 15 of the Texas Election Code (chs. 251 – 259) and in the rules adopted by the Texas Ethics Commission.
 

A political committee, commonly referred to as a “PAC,” is “two or more persons acting in concert with a principal purpose of accepting political contributions or making political expenditures.” Tex. Elec. Code § 251.001(12). A political committee may be a large group such as an organization that collects money to support many different candidates. A political committee may also be a small group such as two people who get together to raise funds for an old friend who is a candidate for a local office. However, a group composed exclusively of two or more individual filers or political committees required to file reports under Title 15 of the Election Code for reportable expenditures for a joint activity is not considered a political committee.¹