Terms Used In Texas Government Code 403.078

  • 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
  • Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

All claims and accounts against the state shall be submitted on forms or according to the method and format that the comptroller prescribes. The claims and accounts shall be prepared to provide for entering on the claim or account, for use of the comptroller’s office, the following:
(1) authorization of the head of the office or other person responsible for the expenditure;
(2) the appropriation against which the disbursement is to be charged;
(3) information required by the comptroller’s rules;
(4) proof that the claim or account was presented to the state within the period of limitation provided by § 16.051, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or other applicable statute; and
(5) other appropriate matters.