Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 63 - Budget Commission and Appropriations

• Affiliated group: has the meaning provided by § 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Agency: includes every board, department, bureau, commission, person or group of persons or other authority created and now existing or hereafter to be created to execute, supervise, control and/or administer governmental functions under the laws of this State or to perform such other duties as may be prescribed or to whom any moneys are appropriated under any budget appropriation act or supplemental appropriation act or any other act which authorizes and requires any department to collect and/or use any taxes, fees, licenses, permits or other receipts for services or otherwise for the performance of any function of or related to or supported in whole or in part by the laws of this State, and/or created to administer any laws providing for the collection of taxes, fees, permits, licenses or other forms of receipts from any sources whatsoever for the use of the State or any agency of the State, except the judiciary and the courts of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Budget: includes the complete financial plan of the State as evidenced by all appropriations and allowances made and estimates of revenue approved by the General Assembly, including, in addition to the general budget of appropriations adopted by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor, all other appropriations and allowances authorized by law which have been or shall be made to any agency of this State which is supported in whole or in part out of the revenues, taxes, licenses, fees, permits, fines and from other sources including any agency which is empowered by statute to collect and expend revenues by the use of special funds by whatever name known whether or not specifically appropriated by the General Assembly, and includes the budgets and the revenues and expenditures of all agencies to which moneys are appropriated by supplementary appropriations or otherwise. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• certification: means or refers to the written determination of the Director of Revenue issued to a corporation that it qualifies as a Headquarters Management Corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• CMS: means the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• contiguous: means land adjoining or touching other property held by the same or related organization. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Department: means the Department of Finance. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• DHSS: means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Revenue or the Secretary of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Expenditures: includes any outlay of public moneys by authority of any law of this State and includes the expenditure of any appropriation authorized by the General Assembly of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Grant-in-aid: includes an appropriation of the public money from the General Fund for a public purpose to any county, municipality, corporation, private agency or person. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• Headquarters Management Corporation: means an entity treated as a corporation under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States (Title 26 of the United States Code) that:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401

• Headquarters services: includes , without limitation, accounts receivable and payable, employee benefit plan, insurance, legal, payroll, data processing, purchasing, and tax, financial and securities accounting, reporting and compliance services provided by a Headquarters Management Corporation to itself and members of its affiliated group, and the maintenance and management of the intangible investments of other members of its affiliated group. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Investment activities: means the maintenance and management by a Headquarters Management Corporation of its intangible investments and the collection and distribution of the income from such investments or from tangible property physically located outside this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this Article. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article and any other applicable rules of law. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• managed care company under contract to the Medicaid agency: means an entity that meets the definition of an MCO under 42 C. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Nursing facility: means a nursing facility as defined and licensed pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Nursing facility services: has the meaning given that term in 42 C. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Resident day: means a calendar day of care provided to a nursing facility resident, including the day of admission and excluding the day of discharge, provided that 1 resident day shall be deemed to exist when admission and discharge occur on the same day. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• 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.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}