No committee, other than a political party committee, may expend or transfer funds except to make an expenditure, as defined in subsection
(1),
(2), or
(3) of section 49-1419, or as provided in this section. Any committee, including a political party committee, may:
(1) Make expenditures or transfer funds after any election for: (a) The necessary continued operation of the campaign office or offices of the candidate or political committee; (b) social events primarily for the benefit of campaign workers and volunteers or constituents; (c) obtaining public input and opinion; (d) repayment of campaign loans incurred prior to election day; (e) newsletters and other communications of information, thanks, acknowledgment, or greetings, or for the purpose of political organization and planning; (f) gifts of acknowledgment, including flowers and charitable contributions, except that gifts to any one natural person shall not exceed fifty dollars in any one calendar year; (g) meals, lodging, and travel by an officeholder related to his or her candidacy and for members of the immediate family of the officeholder when involved in activities related to his or her candidacy; and (h) conference fees, meals, lodging, and travel by an officeholder and his or her staff when involved in activities related to the duties of his or her public office;
(2) Make expenditures or transfer funds for the payment of installation and use of telephone and telefax machines located in an officeholder's public office and used by such officeholder; and
(3) Invest funds in investments authorized in the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act for the state investment officer. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a separate segregated political fund from disbursing funds as provided in section 49-1469.