Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 350B - Hawaii Children's Trust Fund

• Advisory committee: means the component of the Hawaii children's trust fund coalition that serves in an advisory capacity to the trust fund and the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 350B-1
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Hawaii children's trust fund advisory board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 350B-1
• Coalition: means the Hawaii children's trust fund coalition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 350B-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• fund: means the Hawaii children's trust fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 350B-1
• Rehabilitation area: means any area of the State struck by a state disaster and declared to be in need of rehabilitation by the governor pursuant to section 209-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209-1
• Secondary prevention: means efforts targeting children and families that are considered, because of their life situations, to be at risk of abuse or neglect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 350B-1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• sickness insurance: shall include an accident-only; specified disease; hospital indemnity; long-term care; disability; dental; vision; medicare supplement; short-term, limited-duration health insurance; or other limited benefit health insurance contract regardless of the manner in which benefits are paid; provided that if any of the requirements in the foregoing sections as applied to long-term care insurance conflict with article 10H, the provisions of article 10H shall govern and control. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10A-607
• State disaster: means any unfortunate, sudden, and extraordinary occurrence declared by the governor pursuant to section 209-2 to have caused losses and suffering of such character and magnitude as to require and justify rehabilitative assistance from the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209-1
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.