56. For the purposes of this chapter, “State entity” means any of the following persons, agencies, bodies or institutions:(1) any public body or government agency within the meaning of the Auditor General Act (chapter V-5.01); (2) the Université du Québec and its constituent universities, research institutes and superior schools within the meaning of the Act respecting the Université du Québec (chapter U-1); (3) any university-level institution referred to in paragraphs 1 to 11 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1), other than those mentioned in paragraph 2; (4) any general and vocational college established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29); (5) any school service centre governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), any school board governed by the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14) or the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal; (6) any private institution accredited for purposes of subsidies under the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1); (7) any other educational institution more than half of whose expenditures are provided for in the budgetary estimates tabled in the National Assembly otherwise than under a transferred appropriation;
(8) any public or private institution that is a party to an agreement referred to in the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2); (9) the regional council established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5); (10) any municipality or any body referred to in section 18 or 19 of the Act respecting the Pension Plan of Elected Municipal Officers (chapter R-9.3); (11) the James Bay Regional Administration and any delegate organization referred to in section 126.4 of the Municipal Powers Act (chapter C-47.1); and (12) any agency described in paragraph 4 of section 4 of the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act (chapter T-11.011).