1. (a) Pursuant to §173.004 of the Texas Election Code, a county chair may receive compensation for administering primary elections.
2. (b) The SOS shall not authorize payment under this section until the county party's final cost report has been received, including the necessary supporting documentation required in §81.107 of this chapter (relating to Primary-Fund Records), and approved by the SOS. The SOS shall notify the county chair of the approval via email. The chair may view the approved costs by line item in the online primary finance system.
3. (c) After all other expenses have been paid and the final cost report has been approved by SOS, the county chair shall be paid with a check drawn on the county's primary-fund account.
4. (d) The SOS may deny compensation to county chairs who file delinquent final-cost reports.
5. (e) Legal fees and county election service contract costs will not be included in the formula for determining the county chair's compensation. If there are services contracted with the county in which the county works with a third party but the third party is paid directly by the county chair, such as voting system vendors and election workers, the election service contract must stipulate whether the cost is applied to the county's election service contract 10 percent general supervision fee pursuant to §81.131 of this chapter (relating to Contracting with the County Election Officer) or the county chair compensation calculation.

Source Note:The provisions of this §81.119 adopted to be effective December 13, 2009, 34 TexReg 8665; amended to be effective March 7, 2012, 37 TexReg 1483; amended to be effective January 9, 2014, 39 TexReg 209; amended to be effective November 9, 2015, 40 TexReg 7811.