Administrative Code Provisions | 1 TAC ยง 62.100 | 2020

   The following terms and abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) Applicant--An entity that has filed an application for a grant with the OAG

(2) Application Kit--The information that is required to be completed and submitted by an applicant for a grant


(3) CFR--Code of Federal Regulations


(4) COG--Council of Governments, a regional planning commission or similar regional planning agency created under Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 391

(5) Computing devices--Machines used to acquire, store, analyze, process, and publish data and other information electronically, including accessories (or peripherals) for printing, transmitting and receiving, or storing electronic information


(6) CVSD--Crime Victim Services Division, a division of the Office of the Attorney General

(7) Eligible Application--An application that meets the minimum requirements set forth in the RFA and Application Kit

(8) Employee--A person under the direction and supervision of the grantee, who is on the payroll of the grantee and for whom the grantee is required to pay applicable income withholding taxes or a person who will be on the grantees payroll and for whom the grantee will pay applicable income withholding taxes once the grant is awarded

(9) Equipment--Tangible personal property (including information technology systems) having a useful life of more than one year and a per unit acquisition cost which equals or exceeds the lesser of the capitalization level established by the grantee for financial statement purposes or $ 5,000

(10) Fringe benefits--Allowances and services provided by the grantee to its employees as compensation in addition to regular salaries and wages


(11) Grantee--An entity or sub-recipient of an entity that receives a grant contract from the OAG

(12) Indirect costs--Any cost not directly identified with a single, final cost objective, but identified with two or more final cost objectives or with at least one intermediate cost objective

(13) Information technology systems--Computing devices, ancillary equipment, software, firmware, and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources


(14) OAG--Office of the Attorney General

(15) Other direct operating expenses--Costs not included in other budget categories and which are directly related to the day-to-day operation of the sexual assault program

(16) Professional and consultant services--Any service for which the grantee uses an outside source for necessary support

(17) Relative-- a person related to the individual within the third degree by consanguinity or within the second degree by affinity, as determined by Texas Government Code Chapter 573

(18) RFA--Request for Applications

(19) SAPCS--Sexual Assault Prevention and Crisis Services program administered by the OAG

(20) Sexual Assault--any act or attempted act as described in the Texas Penal Code, §§ 21.11, 22.011, 22.021 or 25.02.

(21) Sexual Assault Program--any local public or private nonprofit corporation, independent of a law enforcement agency or prosecutors office, that is operated as an independent program or as part of a municipal, county, or state agency and that provides the minimum services to adult survivors of stranger and non-stranger sexual assault established in Texas Government Code, Chapter 420

(22) Special condition--A condition placed on a grant because of a need for information, clarification, or submission of an outstanding requirement of the grant that may result in a hold being placed on the OAG funded portion of a sexual assault program. Special conditions may be placed on a grant at any time

(23) Special Project--projects to prevent sexual assault and improve services to survivors that may be outside the standard application cycle or process for SAPCS funding


(24) State sexual assault coalition--A statewide nonprofit organization that has been identified as a state sexual assault coalition by a state or federal agency authorized to make that designation

(25) Statewide Program--An entity that actively offers or provides services in six or more COG regions


(26) Supplies--All tangible personal property other than that described in subsection (9) of this section. A computing device is a supply if the acquisition cost is less than the lesser of the capitalization level established by the grantee for financial statement purposes or $ 5,000, regardless of the length of its useful life


(27) Survivor--an individual who is a victim of sexual assault, regardless of whether a law enforcement report or conviction is made in the incident

(28) UGMS--The Uniform Grant Management Standards, promulgated by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.