10 Tex. Admin. Code § 2.201 - Cost Reimbursement

(a) The Department may place on Cost Reimbursement any Contract, other than non-Discretionary CSBG. Cost Reimbursement requires Subrecipients to submit supporting documentation and back up for Expenditures or Obligations prior to the Department releasing funds. The Department staff will indicate for each entity placed on Cost Reimbursement status whether all expenses will be reviewed or a sample, and the nature of any additional documentation that the Department will require from the Subrecipient in connection therewith. The decision by the Department to release funds in a cost review situation does not constitute final approval of the expenditure. Funds so advanced remain subject to future reviews, monitoring, and audits and in no way does the decision to release funds constrains or limits those staff performing further reviews, monitoring, or audits.
(b) In addition to the reporting requirements outlined in § 6.7 of this title (relating to Subrecipient Reporting Requirements) an entity on Cost Reimbursement must submit, at a minimum, their expanded general ledger, chart of accounts, cost allocation plan, and bank reconciliations for the previous three months. Upon review of those items the Department will request submission of back up for some or all of the reported Expenditures.
(c) To the extent that the Contract has budget caps, the budget caps for each budget category will be enforced each month for which the entity is on Cost Reimbursement.
(d) An entity will be removed from Cost Reimbursement when the Department determines that identified risks or concerns have been sufficiently mitigated.
(e) An entity on Cost Reimbursement remains subject to further reviews, monitoring, and audits.
(f) The Department reserves the right to outsource some or all of its work associated with the Cost Reimbursement process to a third party.

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10 Tex. Admin. Code § 2.201
Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 39, Number 46, November 14, 2014, TexReg 8981, eff. 11/19/2014; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 48, November 25, 2016, TexReg 9269, eff. 12/4/2016; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 09, February 26, 2021, TexReg 1371, eff. 3/4/2021; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 50, Number 17, April 25, 2025, TexReg 2588, eff. 4/30/2025

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