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 grantee's 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
prosecutor's 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.
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