The Texas Ethics Commission database contains data from campaign finance reports filed electronically with the Ethics Commission since July 2000. You may search campaign finance reports for specific information and you may also view, in PDF format, campaign finance reports filed electronically.
Note: “Cash on Hand” reports can be found on the Total Contributions Maintained page.
Internet Availability: As a general rule, a campaign finance report that is filed electronically is available on the Internet within two business days after it is filed.
Paper Reports: Paper reports filed prior to 2008 are not available for viewing online using the Simple Search. Although links are provided to a well known location for pdf and csv files, these pdf reports were not copied and saved in our public directory and the csv files cannot be generated. You should contact the Ethics Commission if you would like to obtain a copy of a paper report. In addition, the database does not contain detailed information such as individual contributions or expenditures for any paper reports. Only totals data is available from our database.
Searching For Information About A Specific Candidate or Officeholder: Although a candidate or officeholder is not required to set up a specific-purpose committee, many candidates and officeholders do so. In order to make sure that a search produces reports filed by an individual as well as reports filed by a committee supporting or opposing the individual, you should search by last name only.
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Use one of the advanced searches if you want to combine criteria in your search. For example, the Advanced Filer Search would allow you to generate a list of all contributions filed by a candidate or officeholders who filed the January 2003 semiannual report electronically.
Data from Special Pre-Election and Special Session reports are required to also be reported on the subsequent report. For example, if your search criteria covers a span that has both Special Pre-Election or Special Session reports and the subsequent semi-annual report, you would see everything reported on the Special Pre-Election report twice in your results; once from the Special Pre-Election report and once from the semi-annual report. This is duplicate data from t he multiple filing requirements, not additional data.
Corrected reports contain all the data from the original report plus any corrections. If a report was corrected, only the results from the last corrected report will be listed.