HB62 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Leigh HulseyRepresentative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Campaign finance; campaign contributions used for dependent care expenses authorized

Summary

HB62 would let campaign funds be used to pay for dependent care expenses for people the candidate cares for, updating the list of allowed campaign expenditures.

What This Bill Does

The bill adds dependent care expenses as an allowed use of campaign contributions for candidates, public officials, and principal campaign committees. It defines dependent care expenses as costs directly resulting from caring for and supervising dependents while the candidate engages in campaign activities or duties. It keeps existing rules that expenditures must be necessary, ordinary, or reasonably related to duties, and it continues to exclude personal or legislative living expenses. The act takes effect on October 1, 2025.

Who It Affects

• Candidates for public office, public officials, and principal campaign committees: may use campaign funds to cover dependent care expenses for individuals they have caregiving responsibility for.
• Dependents and individuals under a candidate's care (such as children or a disabled person): could have their caregiving costs paid from campaign funds during campaigning or while performing duties.

Key Provisions

• Dependent care expenses are added as an allowed use of campaign contributions under §17-5-7(a)(8).
• Dependent care expenses are defined as costs directly resulting from caring for and supervising dependents during campaign activities or office duties.
• Expenditures that are reasonably related to performing duties remain allowed, but personal and legislative living expenses are still excluded.
• The bill preserves other existing permitted uses (e.g., necessary/ordinary campaign expenditures, certain donations, inaugural expenses, legal fees, etc.) and establishes an effective date of October 1, 2025.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Elections, Voting, & Campaigns