County, Municipal and School Reporting Schedule
REPORTING DATES: File reports quarterly, unless an election is held before the next quarterly report is due. If an election is held use the Reporting information below.
The Commission DOES NOT provide Local Government (counties, municipalities, independent school districts, or technology center districts) Campaign Finance reporting calendars to candidates, due to the number of local governments and variety in number of regular and special elections. However, it does provide the following information to assist filer's in determining when reports are due.
QUARTERLY REPORTING:
Filing Due Dates | Period Covered | Type of Report Due |
April 1 - April 30 | January 1 - March 31 | 1st Quarter Contributions and Expenditures Report |
July 1 - July 31 | April 1 - June 30 | 2nd Quarter Contributions and Expenditures Report |
October 1 - October 31 | July - September 30 | 3rd Quarter Contributions and Expenditures Report |
January 1 - January 31 | October 1 - December 31 | 4th Quarter Contributions and Expenditures Report |
PRE-ELECTION REPORTING: Always occurs during the two weeks before an election and ends on the 2nd Tuesday before the election.
Filing Due Dates | Period Covered | Type of Report Due |
8-14 days before an election | Begin with the day following the last date covered by a Quarterly Report and ends 15 days before an election. |
Contributions and Expenditures Report |
Final two weeks prior to an election, reports are required within 24 hours for a contribution or contributions over $1,000 from a single source. | Continuing Report of Contributions (CRC) |
EXAMPLE - PRE-ELECTION REPORTING CALENDAR: Election held Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Filing Due Dates | Period Covered | Type of Report Due |
June 14 – June 20, 2022 | April 1 – June 13, 2022 | Contributions and Expenditures Report |
Within 24 hours of accepting in excess of $1000 in the aggregate from a contributor | June 14 – June 26, 2022 | Continuing Report of Contributions |
POST-ELECTION REPORTING: Begin with the date following the last date covered by a Contributions and Expenditures Report and end on the last date of the period covered by the next quarterly report.
Political Committees Reporting Dates:
Quarterly filing according to the Candidates non-election year schedule.
Two weeks prior to elections. Independent Expenditure or Electioneering Reports may be due during the two weeks prior to an election if the committee makes and independent expenditure or electioneering communication in excess of $5,000.00 prior to an election.
• For IE/EC expenditures made more than 15 days prior to an election, a report is due no earlier than fourteen (14) days prior to the election and no later than eight (8) days before an election.
• For IE/EC expenditures made within the last 14 days of an election, a report is due no later than the business day following the day the expenditure is made.