Montana Code 13-37-220. Child-care expenses
13-37-220. Child-care expenses. (1) While a candidate is engaged in campaign activity, a candidate may use contributions deposited in the candidate’s primary campaign depository as provided in 13-37-205 to pay the candidate’s reasonable and necessary child-care expenses.
Terms Used In Montana Code 13-37-220
- Candidate: means :
(a)an individual who has filed a declaration or petition for nomination, acceptance of nomination, or appointment as a candidate for public office as required by law;
(b)for the purposes of chapter 35, 36, or 37, an individual who has solicited or received and retained contributions, made expenditures, or given consent to an individual, organization, political party, or committee to solicit or receive and retain contributions or make expenditures on the individual's behalf to secure nomination or election to any office at any time, whether or not the office for which the individual will seek nomination or election is known when the:
(i)solicitation is made;
(ii)contribution is received and retained; or
(iii)expenditure is made; or
(c)an officeholder who is the subject of a recall election. See Montana Code 13-1-101
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of political practices created by 13-37-102. See Montana Code 13-37-101
- Contribution: means :
(i)the receipt by a candidate or a political committee of an advance, gift, loan, conveyance, deposit, payment, or distribution of money or anything of value to support or oppose a candidate or a ballot issue;
(ii)an expenditure, including an in-kind expenditure, that is made in coordination with a candidate or ballot issue committee and is reportable by the candidate or ballot issue committee as a contribution;
(iii)the receipt by a political committee of funds transferred from another political committee; or
(iv)the payment by a person other than a candidate or political committee of compensation for the personal services of another person that are rendered to a candidate or political committee. See Montana Code 13-1-101
- Expenditure: means a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, promise, pledge, or gift of money or anything of value:
(i)made by a candidate or political committee to support or oppose a candidate or a ballot issue;
(ii)made by a candidate while the candidate is engaging in campaign activity to pay child-care expenses as provided in 13-37-220; or
(iii)used or intended for use in making independent expenditures or in producing electioneering communications. See Montana Code 13-1-101
- Individual: means a human being. See Montana Code 13-1-101
(2)When a candidate expends funds from the candidate’s primary campaign depository as provided in 13-37-205 to pay for the candidate’s child-care expenses, each expenditure must be reported as provided in Title 13, chapter 37, part 2.
(3)After the candidate’s closing campaign report provided for in 13-37-228 is filed, the candidate may not expend surplus campaign funds for the candidate’s child-care expenses as provided in 13-37-240(1).
(4)In-kind child care provided to the candidate while the candidate is engaging in campaign activity by the candidate’s family or an individual known to the candidate is not a contribution and is not reportable under this chapter. The commissioner shall broadly construe this provision.