What is Function Code 62?
Short answer
Function code 62 is School District Administrative Support Services, and FASRG restricts it to regional education service centers only. ESCs use it for administrative services they perform on behalf of school districts.
If you work at a school district rather than an ESC, function 62 is not a code you should be using. The district-side equivalents are function 41 (General Administration) and the function 50 series.
The detail
FASRG lists code 62 as "School District Administrative Support Services (for Use by Regional Education Service Centers Only)" and says it "is used exclusively by regional education service centers (ESCs) for costs related to performing certain administrative services for school districts."
Those services are:
- Indirect instructional services for students. Guidance and counseling, social work, health services, and food services.
- General administrative services. Budget management, accounting, joint purchasing, tax administration, and preparing program applications.
Function 62 also covers region-wide in-service education and development activities that ESCs provide to school district professional staff classified with function codes other than 11, 12, and 13. (In-service for staff in 11, 12, and 13 goes to function 13.)
Costs to include in function 62
Salaries for:
- guidance and counseling staff who provide services to students
- social workers who provide services to students
- health staff who provide services to students
- staff who provide administrative services to students
Plus:
- administrative support services for school district personnel
- vehicles used by personnel classified with this function code
- pre- and post-employment physicals or drug testing for personnel classified with this function code
Costs to exclude from function 62
- salaries for staff who provide instructional services to students (function code 11)
Where this comes from
FASRG Update 20, Module 1: Financial Accounting and Reporting Appendices, Appendix A.3 Function Codes, code 62 "School District Administrative Support Services (for Use by Regional Education Service Centers Only)," page 90. Open the source PDF at page 90
Related questions
Current as of: FASRG Update 20 (TEA document dated July 2026). Checked 19 October 2026.
Your situation is probably more specific than this page.
Howard is an AI assistant that has read FASRG, EDGAR and 2 CFR 200, TEA's fiscal and grant guidelines, and the full ASCENDER business documentation, and cites the page it found the answer on, every time. Ask it your actual question, free.
Districts buy Howard with a PO, invoice, or check. Pricing →