Miscellaneous Expenditures — Seminars, Conferences…
Required Use of State-Owned or State-Occupied Facilities

A state agency must use state-owned or state-occupied facilities for meetings, conferences, and administration of group examinations, and may not use appropriated money to lease private facilities for these purposes unless state facilities are not:

• Available when needed.
• Adequate to accommodate the meeting, conference or examination.
• An economically favorable alternative to other facilities.

Definitions:

Appropriated money

Money appropriated by the Legislature through the General Appropriations Act (GAA) or other law.

State agency

• A department, commission, board, office or other entity in the executive branch of state government.
• The Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, another entity in the judicial branch of state government with statewide authority or a court of appeals.
• A university system or an institution of higher education as defined by Texas Education Code Section 61.003, except a public junior college which is excluded from the meaning of the term.

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