1. (a) A candidate is required to report a campaign expenditure from personal funds.
2. (b) An officeholder is not required to report an officeholder expenditure from personal funds unless he or she intends to be reimbursed from political contributions.
3. (c) A candidate or officeholder must report a political expenditure from personal funds as a political expenditure, not as a political contribution or a loan.

4. (d) A candidate or officeholder who makes political expenditures from his or her personal funds may reimburse those personal funds from political contributions only if:

   1. (1) the expenditures were fully reported as political expenditures on the report covering the period during which the expenditures were made; and
   2. (2) the report disclosing the expenditures indicates that the expenditures were made from the candidate's or officeholder's personal funds and are subject to reimbursement.
5. (e) A candidate's or officeholder's failure to comply with subsection (d) of this section may not be cured by filing a corrected report after the report deadline has passed.
6. (f) A candidate or officeholder who has complied with subsection (d) of this section and whose personal funds have been reimbursed from political contributions must report the amount of the reimbursement as a political expenditure in the report covering the period during which the reimbursement was made.
7. (g) Section 22.21 of this title (relating to Additional Restrictions on Reimbursement of Personal Funds and Payments on Certain Loans) set limits on the amount of political expenditures from personal funds that a statewide officeholder may reimburse from political contributions.

Source Note:The provisions of this §20.63 adopted to be effective December 31, 1993, 18 TexReg 9717.