1. (a) applicant: an agency or organization that has submitted a grant application or grant renewal documentation;
2. (b) approved budget categories: budget categories (including personnel, contractual and professional services, travel, equipment, construction, supplies and other direct operating expenses, and indirect costs) that contain a line item with a dollar amount greater than zero that is approved by CJD through a grant award or a budget adjustment;
3. (c) CJAC: Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, a component of a COG. A CJAC must have a multi-disciplinary representation of members from the region. This representation must contain members from the following groups: concerned citizens or parents, drug abuse prevention, education, juvenile justice, law enforcement, mental health, nonprofit organizations, prosecution/courts, and victim services. No single group may constitute more than one third of the CJAC;
4. (d) CJD: The Criminal Justice Division of the Office of the Governor or its designee;
5. (e) COD: The Compliance and Oversight Division of the Office of the Governor or its designee;
6. (f) COG: a regional planning commission, council of governments, or similar regional planning agency created under Chapter 391, Texas Local Government Code;
7. (g) 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;
8. (h) condition of funding: a prerequisite 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 CJD-funded portion of a grant project;
9. (i) 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. (j) executive director: the executive director of CJD;
11. (k) grant funds: CJD-funded and matching funds portions of a grant project;
12. (l) grantee: an agency or organization that receives a grant award;
13. (m) indirect costs: those costs incurred for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective, and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefitted, without effort disproportionate to the results achieved;
14. (n) information technology systems: computing devices, ancillary equipment, software, firmware, and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources;
15. (o) liquidation date: the date specified in an original grant award or a subsequent grant adjustment upon which a grantee must expend all outstanding liabilities;
16. (p) matching funds: the grantee's share of the project costs. Matching funds may either be cash or in-kind. Cash match includes actual cash spent by the grantee and must have a cost relationship to the award that is being matched. In-kind match includes the value of donated services. An applicant's use of matching funds must comply with the same statutes, rules, regulations, and guidelines applicable to the use of the CJD-funded portion of a grant project;
17. (q) OMB: the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Management and Budget;
18. (r) program income: gross income earned by the grantee that is directly generated by a supported activity or earned as a result of the award during the period of performance. Program income includes, but is not limited to, forfeitures, fees for services performed, the use of rental or real or personal property acquired under an award, the sale of commodities or items fabricated under an award, and license fees and royalties on patents and copyrights. Interest earned on advances of grant funds is not program income. Except otherwise provided in applicable law, regulations or the terms and conditions of the award, program income does not include rebates, credits, discounts and interest earned on any of them;
19. (s) RFA: Request for Applications, published in the Texas Register by CJD;
20. (t) supplies: all tangible personal property other than those described in accordance with §3.3(i) of this chapter. A computing device is a supply if the acquisition cost is less than the lesser of the capitalizations level established by the grantee for financial statement purposes or $5,000, regardless of the length of its useful life; and
21. (u) UGMS: the Uniform Grant Management Standards.

Source Note:The provisions of this §3.3 adopted to be effective February 24, 2000, 25 TexReg 1297; amended to be effective September 9, 2001, 26 TexReg 6645; amended to be effective December 16, 2002, 27 TexReg 11729; amended to be effective October 13, 2003, 28 TexReg 8873; amended to be effective June 9, 2004, 29 TexReg 5575; amended to be effective February 17, 2005, 30 TexReg 661; amended to be effective August 6, 2007, 32 TexReg 4747; amended to be effective June 21, 2009, 34 TexReg 3925; amended to be effective May 9, 2012, 37 TexReg 3389; amended to be effective January 1, 2015, 39 TexReg 10393.