Texas Government Code 444.024 – Grants
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(a) The commission may award grants in accordance with the commission’s mission to advance the state economically and culturally by investing in the arts in this state.
(a-1) An applicant for a grant of money from the commission shall specify in the grant application a minimum and maximum amount of money requested.
Terms Used In Texas Government Code 444.024
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(b) Before making a grant of money, the commission shall submit the grant application to a panel of commission consultants for its recommendations. The panel shall include in its recommendations its determination of the reasonableness of the proposed amounts of funding.
(c) The commission by rule shall adopt equitable procedures for the distribution of grants to recipients who reflect the geographical, cultural, and ethnic diversity of the state’s population.
(d) The commission shall adopt rules to govern the review, approval, and oversight of special initiative grants. The rules must provide for:
(1) commission approval of special initiative grants, including expedited approval of the grants in limited circumstances for cases requiring immediate action;
(2) criteria to be used in reviewing and evaluating special initiative grant applications; and
(3) procedures to be used in determining the amounts of the special initiative grants.