A speaker candidate may expend campaign funds for:
- (1) travel for the speaker candidate and the speaker candidate's immediate family and campaign staff;
- (2) the employment of clerks and stenographers;
- (3) clerical and stenographic supplies;
- (4) printing and stationery;
- (5) office rent;
- (6) telephone, telegraph, postage, freight, and express expenses;
- (7) advertising and publicity;
- (8) the expenses of holding political and other meetings designed to promote the candidacy;
- (9) the employment of legal counsel; and
- (10) the retirement of campaign loans.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.