Texas Administrative Code › Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Part 3 - OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL › Chapter 62 - SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND CRISIS SERVICES › Subchapter C - SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM GRANTS › Section 62.100 - SAPCS Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
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, §§
										RSA 21.11,
				  RSA 22.011,
				  RSA
				  22.021 or
				  RSA
				  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.