Section 15849.20.

For purposes of this chapter and the issuance of debt pursuant to this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) "Acquire" has the same meaning as in Section 15802 and, in addition, includes acquisition by development.

(b) "Approved FISCal Project documents" means the FISCal Special Project Report dated October 30, 2006, as revised on December 14, 2006, as amended by the FISCal Special Project Report dated November 9, 2007, revised on December 19, 2007, as amended by the Special Project Report dated November 18, 2009, and as amended, augmented, or changed by any subsequent approved Special Project Report or legislative action.

(c) "Cost or costs of the FISCal system" means the cost of a public building, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, design, development, installation, and deployment of the system, and the acquisition, development, installation, implementation, and deployment of enterprise resource planning software, other ancillary software, hardware, licenses, upgrades, independent verification and validation, and related training and facilities to acquire, develop, install, implement, and deploy the system. Cost or costs of the system also include staff and contractor costs and expenses related to the FISCal system. Cost or costs of the FISCal system does not include the cost of the ongoing operation and maintenance of the FISCal system or debt service for the FISCal system.

(d) "Debt service for the FISCal system" means principal of; premium, if any; and interest on, bonds or certificates issued to finance and refinance the costs of the FISCal system and payments pursuant to agreements providing security or liquidity for those bonds or certificates.

(e) "FISCal" means the Financial Information System for California.

(f) (1) "General Fund and federal fund expenditures" mean the expenditure or transfer of funds in an amount in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) by any state department in the form of, including, but not limited to, any of the following:

(A) Grants.

(B) Contracts.

(C) Purchase orders.

(2) "General Fund and federal fund expenditures" do not include the transfer of funds between two state departments or agencies, or the transfer of state or federal assistance payments to any individual recipient or beneficiary of those assistance payments.

(g) "Interim financing" means any financing issued or obtained in accordance with this chapter and this part to finance the costs of the FISCal system on an interim basis, including any loan from the General Fund, any loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, and negotiable notes, including commercial paper notes or other forms of negotiable short-term indebtedness and negotiable bond anticipation notes.

(h) "Notes" means negotiable notes, including commercial paper notes or other forms of negotiable short-term indebtedness or negotiable bond anticipation notes and any renewals thereof.

(i) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), "office" means the FISCal Project Office in the Department of Finance.

(2) Upon the establishment of an Office of the Financial Information System for California, "office" shall mean the Office of the Financial Information System for California, and shall no longer be construed to mean the FISCal Project Office in the Department of Finance.

(j) "Public building" has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 15802 and includes the FISCal system.

(k) "State departments and agencies" means all state offices, officers, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions, organizations, or agencies, claims against which are paid by warrants drawn by the Controller, and whose financial activities are reported in the annual financial statement of the state or are included in the annual Governor's Budget, including, but not limited to, the California State University and the University of California.

(l) "Stage" means a group of implementation waves.

(m) "System" or "FISCal system" means a single integrated financial management system for the state that encompasses the management of resources and dollars in the areas of budgeting, accounting, procurement, cash management, financial management, financial reporting, cost accounting, asset accounting, project accounting, and grant accounting, as included in the approved FISCal Project documents and includes the information required by Section 15849.23.

(n) "Wave" means a set of activities resulting in the implementation of predefined business functions of the enterprise resource planning software in one or more departments.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 727, Sec. 4. Effective October 19, 2010.)