Texas Administrative Code › Title 34 - PUBLIC FINANCE › Part 1 - COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS › Chapter 5 - FUNDS MANAGEMENT (FISCAL AFFAIRS) › Subchapter O - UNIFORM STATEWIDE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM › Section 5.210 - Uniform Statewide Accounting System

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Purpose. The purpose of this section is to allow the comptroller to administer,
				  maintain, modify and operate the uniform statewide accounting system, including
				  any required component systems, to serve as the financial system of record for
				  the State of Texas. The uniform statewide accounting system includes each
				  component designated by the comptroller. The comptroller may require state
				  agencies to use any or all components of the uniform statewide accounting
				  system as their internal system or may allow agencies to report required
				  information from existing individual systems that conform to reporting and
				  calculation requirements specified by the comptroller.
(b) Definitions. The following words and
				  terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the
				  context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1)State
				  agency--Has the meaning assigned by Government Code, §
											403.013(a)
				  but does not include public junior colleges or community colleges.
(2) HRIS--The Human Resource Information
				  System, which is the higher education reporting system and a component of the
				  uniform statewide accounting system. HRIS is the system to which the
				  institutions of higher education must report information in the format and by
				  the timeframes required by the comptroller.
(3) SPA--The Statewide Property Accounting
				  system, which is the personal property fixed asset component of the uniform
				  statewide accounting system.
(4)
				  TINS--The Texas Identification Number System, which is a component of the
				  uniform statewide accounting system. TINS is used to track payees paid through
				  USAS and records the payments.
(5)
				  USAS--The Uniform Statewide Accounting System, which is the integrated
				  financial system of record for the State of Texas financial records.
(6) USPS--The Uniform Statewide
				  Payroll/Personnel System, which is the integrated human resources and payroll
				  system developed and maintained by the comptroller as a component of the
				  uniform statewide accounting system. USPS is maintained for the use of state
				  agencies and the calculations in USPS serve as the standardized payroll
				  calculations for all state payrolls.
(7) SPRS--The Standardized Payroll/Personnel
				  Reporting System, which is a component of the uniform statewide accounting
				  system. SPRS is the system maintained by the comptroller as the reporting data
				  base that state agencies, that do not use USPS as their internal payroll and
				  human resources system, utilize to report required information in the format
				  and by the timeframes required by the comptroller.
(8) State funds--Funds of the state held by
				  state agencies regardless of whether or not such funds are inside or outside of
				  the State Treasury.
(9) Individual
				  Accounting and/or Payroll Systems--Systems that are used instead of USAS as a
				  state agency system of record, or are systems that modify the code base of the
				  integrated statewide administrative system which is the state integrated
				  financial system maintained for state agencies that use the integrated
				  statewide administrative system as their internal financial system to interface
				  with the state's systems of record.