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) 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;

8. (h) equipment:

   1. (1) an article of non-expendable, tangible personal property having a useful life of more than one year and an acquisition cost which equals the lesser of the capitalization level established by the grantee for financial statement purposes or $1,000; or
   2. (2) any of the following items with costs between $500 and $1,000: stereo systems, still and video cameras, facsimile machines, DVD players, VCRs and VCR/TV combinations, cellular and portable telephones, and computer systems.
9. (i) executive director: the executive director of CJD;
10. (j) grant funds: CJD-funded and matching funds portions of a grant project;
11. (k) grantee: an agency or organization that receives a grant award;
12. (l) liquidation date: the date specified in an original grant award or a subsequent grant adjustment upon which a grantee must expend all outstanding liabilities;
13. (m) 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;
14. (n) OMB: The Office of Management and Budget;
15. (o) program income: gross income earned by the grantee during the funding period as a direct result of the award. "Direct result" is defined as a specific act or set of activities that are directly attributable to grant funds and that are directly related to the objectives of the project. Program income includes, but is not limited to, forfeitures, fees, cash contributions, donations, restitution, interest income, and royalties;
16. (p) RFA: Request for Applications, published in the Texas Register by CJD; and
17. (q) 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.