| (a) Funding for the research funding programs are subject
to Texas Education Code, §142.004.
(b) Limitations on the number of awards that an individual
investigator may receive will be recommended by the Advisory Committee
and published in the Request for Applications.
(c) Budgets recommended by a review panel may be adjusted
to comply with the Request for Applications. Budgets recommended by
a review panel for a proposal that is in line for funding but has
not yet been funded may be decreased to allow award of any remaining
funds in the final stages of the funding assignment process.
(d) The Coordinating Board shall assign funding to
all proposals in order of rank by review panels until the money assigned
to that research area allocation is depleted. However, no more than
70 percent of the funds in each of the research program and the technology
program may be awarded to eligible institutions from The University
of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System.
(e) There is no upper limit to the percentage of funds
that can be awarded to eligible institutions outside of The University
of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System.
(f) The Advisory Committee shall recommend research
projects and allocation of funds to the Commissioner and the Coordinating
Board.
(g) The Coordinating Board shall make the final selection
of research projects and allocation of funds after considering the
recommendations of the Commissioner and the Advisory Committee.
(h) Prior to expenditure of funds for any grant, the
institution must have an approved budget on file with the Coordinating
Board.
(i) The Coordinating Board shall work with the Comptroller
of Public Accounts to ensure that grants funds are forwarded to the
institutions in a timely manner. Funds for the selected awards at
public institutions will be held on account with the Comptroller.
Funds for independent institutions will be forwarded by warrant in
quarterly payments after a contract between the Coordinating Board
and the institution is fully executed.
(j) An eligible institution and its grant participants
to be funded by any of the research funding programs are subject to
grant conditions provided by the Coordinating Board.
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