AO 2022-25 (Crapo)
Use of campaign funds for home security installations/upgrades
Advisory opinions are official Commission responses to questions about how federal campaign finance law applies to specific, factual situations.
This archive contains advisory opinions from 1975 to the present. It also contains documents related to advisory opinions — such as requests, drafts and public comments — from 1990 to the present.
The advisory opinion processOnce the Office of the General Counsel has determined that an advisory opinion request meets all of the requirements to move forward for consideration by the Commission, the request is made public and is available for public comment for ten days.
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The Commission issues an advisory opinion when four or more Commissioners vote to approve it. These votes almost always occur during an open meeting.
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Corporate license of patented technology for political committee use in advertising.
Corporate sale of non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") to political committees.
Payment for television advertisements featuring candidates that solicit funds for national party committee’s legal proceedings account.
Application of coordinated communication rules to text messages soliciting contributions via "split-it" fundraising pages.
Application of joint fundraising rules to text messages containing links to “split-it” fundraising pages
Redesignation of contributions to rescheduled primary election.
Use of campaign funds for cybersecurity expenses
Committee use of contributions deposited after the 10-day deadline
Repayment of candidate loan previously converted to candidate contribution, in light of FEC v. Cruz decision
Technology corporation's provision of pilot program testing new features in email product to authorized candidate committees, political party committees, and leadership political action committees.
Conversion of leadership PAC to authorized committee of candidate.
Provision of supporter names and contact information by nonconnected hybrid political committee to an individual who the committee seeks to draft to run for federal office.
Solicitation of nonfederal funds by state parties and chairs.
Use of online platform and FEC data for providing candidate information and contribution processing
Joint fundraising committee established by state political party committee and nominee fund.
Contribution limits for campaigns with moved primaries.
Use of campaign funds to pay for childcare expenses
Affiliation of non-connected committee with Congressional leadership PACs
Allocation of research expenses between national party committee and candidates' authorized committees.