AO 2023-03 Colorado Republican State Central Committee
State party committee’s legal fund established to challenge constitutionality of a state law.
Advisory opinions
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 processPending advisory opinion requests
Once 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.
Explore all advisory opinionsAO 2023-02 Humana Inc.
Disaffiliation of corporate entities and their separate segregated funds.
AO 2023-01 U.S. Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan
Use of campaign funds for travel expenses of members, staff, and other participants in congressional caucus event.
AO 2022-25 (Crapo)
Use of campaign funds for home security installations/upgrades
AO 2022-23 DataVault II
Corporate license of patented technology for political committee use in advertising.
AO 2022-22 DataVault I
Corporate sale of non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") to political committees.