Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 51 > Chapter 40 - Funds for Small Business Innovation

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Board of examiners: means the Board of Examiners for New Orleans and Baton Rouge steamship pilots for the Mississippi River, established in Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1041
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Family Success Agreement: means the mutually developed contract between a FITAP recipient, on behalf of their family, and the department that sets forth mutual and time-bound responsibilities, expectations, activities, and goals designed to transition a participant from welfare to self-sufficiency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• FITAP: means the cash assistance program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Pilot: means a New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilot, as designated in Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1041
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• STEP: means the education, employment, training and related services program for families receiving cash assistance payments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Work-eligible: refers to families containing an adult under sixty years of age, or teen head of household, that is not disabled, incapacitated, or caring for a family member who is disabled or incapacitated as documented by a medical expert to which the status of disability is clearly established and explained. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231