Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 12 > Article 16.5 - The Health Care Compact

• 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.
• 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
• commission: refers to the interstate advisory health care commission established by Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-1
• compact: refers to the health care compact entered into under this article. See Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-2
• current year inflation adjustment factor: means the total gross domestic product deflator, as determined by the United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, in the current year divided by the total gross domestic product deflator in federal fiscal year 2010. See Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-3
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• health care: means care, services, supplies, or plans related to the health of an individual, including the following:

  Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-4

• Mandatory spending: Spending (budget authority and outlays) controlled by laws other than annual appropriations acts.
• member state: means a state that has adopted the health care compact law. See Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-5
• member state current year funding level: means the member state base funding level multiplied by the member state current year population adjustment factor multiplied by the current year inflation adjustment factor. See Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-7
• member state current year population adjustment factor: means the average population of the member state in the current year, as determined by the United States Census Bureau, less the average population of the member state in federal fiscal year 2010, divided by the average population of the member state in federal fiscal year 2010 plus one (1). See Indiana Code 12-16.5-1-8
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5