Louisiana § RS 39:16.1 - Definitions
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§ RS 39:16.1. Definitions
As used in this Subpart, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of administration.
(2) "Contract" means all types of state agreements, regardless of what the agreements may be called, of state agencies, including orders, grants, and documents purporting to represent grants which are for the purchase or disposal of supplies, services, major repairs, or any other item. "Contract" shall include awards and notices of award, contracts of a fixed-price, cost, cost-plus-a-fixed-fee, or incentive type; contracts providing for the issuance of job or task orders; leases; letter contracts; purchase orders; memoranda of understanding between a state agency and a nonstate entity; cooperative endeavor agreements between a state agency and a nonstate entity; incentive expenditure documentation; and personal, professional, consulting, and social services contracts.
(3) "Incentive expenditure" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in R.S. 39:2.
NOTE: Paragraph (4) eff. until July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier. See Acts 2023, No. 446.
(4) "State agency", solely for the purposes of this Subpart, means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch, including higher education agencies and state retirement systems.
NOTE: Paragraph (4) as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.
(4) "State agency", solely for the purposes of this Subpart, means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, including higher education agencies and state retirement systems.
Acts 2018, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2023, No. 446, §3, see Act.
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