Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 8 - Department of Management &Mdash; Budget and Financial Control Act

• Absent parent: means the parent who either cannot be located or who is located and is not residing with the child at the time the support collection or paternity determination services provided in sections 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• abuse: means :
   (1) Any nonaccidental physical injury, or injury which is at variance with the history given of it, suffered by a child as the result of the acts or omissions of a person responsible for the care of the child. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Accessible: means any of the following, unless otherwise provided in the support order:
   a. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Accountable care organization: means a risk-bearing, integrated health care organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that ties provider reimbursement to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an attributed population of patients. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Adjudicatory hearing: means a hearing to determine if the allegations of a petition are true. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Adult: means a person other than a child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Adult day services: means adult day services as defined in section 231D. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Advisory council: means a council appointed by the school board of directors of a charter school or an innovation zone consortium pursuant to section 256F. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means a person which provides child foster care and which does not meet the definition of an individual as defined under this section. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• appellate court: means and includes both the supreme court and the court of appeals. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Applicant: means a person authorized to regularly lend moneys to be secured by a mortgage on real property in this state, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed attorney, a participating abstractor, or a licensed closing agent. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Applicant: means a person who files an application for participation in the family investment program under this chapter. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Applicant: means an individual who is applying for public assistance benefits in the state. See Iowa Code 239.1
• 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
• Approved local program: means a school district's program for four-year-old children approved by the department of education to provide high quality preschool instruction. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assessment: means the process by which the department responds to all accepted reports of alleged child abuse. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means a family investment program payment. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Assisted living: includes the provision of housing and assistance with instrumental activities of daily living only if personal care or health-related care is also included. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attendance center: means a school building that contains classrooms used for instructional purposes for elementary, middle, or secondary school students. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Attendance center: means a public school building that contains classrooms used for instructional purposes for elementary, middle, or secondary school students. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Attorney in fact: means an agent under a power of attorney pursuant to chapter 633B or an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care pursuant to chapter 144B. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Base year: means the school year ending during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Basic coverage: means health care coverage that at a minimum provides coverage for emergency care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, physician services whether provided within or outside a hospital setting, and laboratory and x-ray services. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Block grant: means funds from the federal government awarded in broad program areas within which the state is given considerable latitude in determining how funds are used and for which the state develops its own plan for spending according to general federal guidelines. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Budget: means the budget document required by this chapter to be transmitted to the legislature. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Budget adjustment: means an adjustment to the regular program district cost of a school district for school districts in which the regular program district cost for a year would be less than the regular program district cost for the previous year. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Budget year: means the school year beginning during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. See Iowa Code 257.2
• caregiver: means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter with which a child in foster care has been placed or a juvenile shelter care home approved under chapter 232 in which a child in foster care has been placed. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Caretaker: means a related or nonrelated person who has the responsibility for the protection, care, or custody of a vulnerable elder as a result of assuming the responsibility voluntarily, by contract, through employment, or by order of the court. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Caretaker: means a parent, relative, guardian, or another person who is responsible for paying foster care costs pursuant to chapter 234 or whose needs are included in an assistance payment made pursuant to chapter 239B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Case permanency plan: means the plan, mandated by Pub. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Cash medical support: is a n obligation separate from any monetary amount a parent is ordered to pay for uncovered medical expenses pursuant to the guidelines established pursuant to section 598. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Categorical grant: means federal funds applied for and received by the state which are in the form of entitlements, formula grants, discretionary grants, open-ended entitlements or another form that may be used only for specific narrowly defined activities except funds for student aid and assistance; grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for research and training for which no appropriated matching funds are required; and reimbursements for services rendered. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by child support services certifying that the named individual is not in compliance with any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charter school: means a school established in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Charter school: means a charter school established in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Child: means any person under the age of eighteen years. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Child: means child as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Child: means a person for whom child or medical support may be ordered pursuant to chapter 234, 239B, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 252K, 598, 600B, or any other chapter of the Code or pursuant to a comparable statute of another state or foreign country. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Child: means an unmarried person who is less than eighteen years of age or an unmarried person who is eighteen years of age and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching nineteen years of age. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age or a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Child: means a person who is less than age eighteen or a person who is age eighteen but less than age nineteen and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching age nineteen. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Child abuse assessment: means an assessment process by which the department responds to all accepted reports of child abuse which allege child abuse as defined in subsection 2, paragraph "a" subparagraphs (1) through (3) and subparagraphs (5) through (10), or which allege child abuse as defined in subsection 2, paragraph "a" subparagraph (4), that also allege imminent danger, death, or injury to a child. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Child foster care: means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care, to a child on a full-time basis by a person, including a relative of the child if the relative is licensed under this chapter, but not including a guardian of the child. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Child in need of assistance: means a child who has been found to meet the grounds for adjudication pursuant to section 232. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Child protection worker: means an individual designated by the department to perform an assessment in response to a report of child abuse. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Child support agency: means child support agency as defined in section 252H. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Child support services: means the same as child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252D.16
• Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Child support services: means the same as child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• children: means an individual or individuals under eighteen years of age. See Iowa Code 237C.1
• Children requiring special education: includes children receiving special education services, who reach the age of twenty-one during an academic year, and who elect to receive special education services until the end of the academic year. See Iowa Code 256B.2
• clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Client: means an individual for whom a representative payee is appointed. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Code: means the Code of Iowa. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Coercion: means communication or conduct which unduly compels a vulnerable elder to act or refrain from acting against the vulnerable elder's will and against the vulnerable elder's best interests. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Combined district cost per pupil: is a n amount determined by adding together the regular program district cost per pupil for a year and the special education support services district cost per pupil for that year as calculated under section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Combined state cost per pupil: is a per pupil amount determined by adding together the regular program state cost per pupil for a year and the special education support services state cost per pupil for that year as calculated under section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Commission: means the college student aid commission. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Commission: means the commission on aging. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Committee: means the school budget review committee. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Community spouse: means an individual who has not resided or is not likely to reside in a hospital or a health care facility for more than twenty-nine consecutive days and is married to an institutionalized spouse. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• Community spouse resource allowance: means a resource amount established for a community spouse pursuant to state policy adopted in accordance with the federal Social Security Act, section 1924(f)(2), as codified in 42 U. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Complaint: means an oral or written report which is made to the juvenile court by any person and alleges that a child is within the jurisdiction of the court. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Complete replacement: means completed construction on a new nursing facility to replace an existing licensed and certified facility. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Conference report: The compromise product negotiated by the conference committee. The "conference report" is submitted to each chamber for its consideration, such as approval or disapproval.
• Confidential access to a child: means access to a child, during an assessment of an alleged act of child abuse, who is alleged to be the victim of the child abuse. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Conservator: means the same as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Conservator: means conservator as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Consumer: means any one of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 216E.1
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• control over: means any of the following:
   (i) A person who has accepted, undertaken, or assumed supervision of a child from the parent or guardian of the child. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Council: means the council on health and human services. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Council: means the council on health and human services. See Iowa Code 249.1
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Course of instruction: means a postsecondary educational program that a school offers through in-person instruction, distance delivery, correspondence study methods, or any combination thereof. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• Court: shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Court: means the juvenile court established under section 602. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Court: means court as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Court appointed special advocate: means a person duly certified by the child advocacy board created in section 237. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Court order: means a judgment or order requiring the payment of a set or determinable amount of monetary support. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Court order: means a judgment or order of a court of this state or another state requiring the payment of a set or determinable amount of monetary support. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• coverage: means providing and paying for the medical needs of a dependent through a health benefit plan. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Covered benefits: means covered benefits as specified in section 249N. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Criminal or juvenile justice agency: means any agency which has as its primary responsibility the enforcement of the state's criminal laws or of local ordinances made pursuant to state law. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Custodian: means a stepparent or a relative within the fourth degree of consanguinity to a child who has assumed responsibility for that child, a person who has accepted a release of custody pursuant to subchapter IV, or a person appointed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over a child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands, but does not imply a sealed instrument; and the words "bond" and "indenture" do not necessarily imply a seal, and the word "undertaking" means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Degree: means a postsecondary credential conferring on the recipient the title of associate, bachelor, master, or doctor, or an equivalent title, signifying educational attainment based on study which may be supplemented by experience or achievement testing. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• Delinquent act: means :
   a. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services and includes the local and county offices of the department. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services, which includes but is not limited to child support services, or any comparable support enforcement agency of another state. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 237C.1
• Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing or the department's designee. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252D.16
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249F.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 239.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 241.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 251.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256.2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent: shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Dependent: means a child, or an obligee for whom a court may order health care coverage pursuant to section 252E. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Dependent child: means a person who meets the eligibility criteria established in chapter 234 or 239B and whose support is required by chapter 234, 239B, 252A, 252F, 598, or 600B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Desertion: means the relinquishment or surrender for a period in excess of six months of the parental rights, duties, or privileges inherent in the parent-child relationship. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Detention: means the temporary care of a child in a physically restricting facility designed to ensure the continued custody of the child at any point between the child's initial contact with the juvenile authorities and the final disposition of the child's case. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Detention hearing: means a hearing at which the court determines whether it is necessary to place or retain a child in detention. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Differential response: means an assessment system in which there are two discrete pathways to respond to accepted reports of child abuse, a child abuse assessment and a family assessment. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Director: means the director of health and human services or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 237C.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 241.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 251.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 256.2
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discretionary medical assistance: means mandatory medical assistance or optional medical assistance provided to medically needy individuals whose income and resources are in excess of eligibility limitations but are insufficient to meet all of the costs of necessary medical care and services, provided that if the assistance includes services in institutions for mental diseases or intermediate care facilities for persons with an intellectual disability, or both, for any group of such individuals, the assistance also includes for all covered groups of such individuals at least the care and services enumerated in Tit. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dispositional hearing: means a hearing held after an adjudication to determine what dispositional order should be made. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Division: means the Iowa title guaranty division in the authority, the director of the division, or a designee of the director. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Education service provider: means an education management organization, charter school management organization, or other person with whom a charter school contracts for educational program implementation or comprehensive management. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Elder abuse: means any of the following:
   (1) Physical injury to, or injury which is at a variance with the history given of the injury, or unreasonable confinement, unreasonable punishment, or assault of a vulnerable elder by a person not otherwise governed by chapter 235E. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Eligible foster care student: means a person under twenty-six years of age who has a high school diploma or a high school equivalency diploma under chapter 259A and is described by any of the following:
   (1) Is age seventeen and is in a court-ordered placement under chapter 232 under the care and custody of the department of health and human services or juvenile court services. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Eligible individual: means an individual eligible for medical assistance pursuant to section 249A. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Eligible institution: means a community college established under chapter 260C or an institution of higher learning governed by the state board of regents. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Eligible program: means any of the following:
   (1) A program of study or an academic major jointly approved by the workforce development board and the state board of regents pursuant to section 84A. See Iowa Code 256.230
• Eligible student: means an Iowa resident who has established financial need and who meets all of the following requirements:
   (1) Completes and submits application forms required by the commission, including the free application for federal student aid, by the deadline prescribed by the commission. See Iowa Code 256.230
• Enroll: means to be eligible for and covered by a health benefit plan. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Essential health benefits: means essential health benefits as defined in section 1302 of the Affordable Care Act, that include at least the general categories and the items and services covered within the categories of ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• executor: includes administrator, and the term "administrator" includes executor, where the subject matter justifies such use. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Expenditures: means the total amounts paid from the general fund of a school district. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Facility: means the personnel, program, physical plant, and equipment of a licensee. See Iowa Code 237.1
• 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.
• Family: means a family unit that includes at least one child and at least one parent or other specified relative of the child. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Family assessment: means an assessment process by which the department responds to all accepted reports of child abuse which allege child abuse as defined in subsection 2, paragraph "a" subparagraph (4), but do not allege imminent danger, death, or injury to a child. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Family in need of assistance: means a family in which there has been a breakdown in the relationship between a child and the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Family investment agreement: means the agreement developed with a participant in accordance with section 239B. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Family investment program: means the family investment program eligibility requirements under chapter 239B, except to the extent federal law requires application of the eligibility requirements under Iowa Code 249A.2
• Family investment program: means the family investment program under this chapter. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Family or household member: means a spouse, a person cohabiting with the vulnerable elder, a parent, or a person related to the vulnerable elder by consanguinity or affinity, but does not include children of the vulnerable elder who are less than eighteen years of age. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Federal poverty level: means the most recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the United States department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Federal supplemental security income: means cash payments made to individuals by the United States government under Tit. See Iowa Code 249.1
• Fictive kin: means an adult person who is not a relative of a child but who has an emotionally positive significant relationship with the child or the child's family. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial need: means the difference between the student's financial resources available, including those available from the student's parents as determined by a completed parents' confidential statement, and the student's anticipated expenses while attending an eligible institution. See Iowa Code 256.212
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• foreign protective order: means a protective order entered by a court of another state, Indian tribe, or United States territory that would be an order or court-approved consent agreement entered under this chapter, a temporary or permanent protective order or order to vacate the homestead under chapter 598, or an order that establishes conditions of release or is a protective order or sentencing order in a criminal prosecution arising from a domestic abuse assault if it had been entered in Iowa. See Iowa Code 236.19
• foreign protective order: means a protective order entered by a court of another state, Indian tribe, or United States territory that would be an order or court-approved consent agreement entered under this chapter, an order that establishes conditions of release, or a protective order or sentencing order in a criminal prosecution arising from a sexual abuse if it had been entered in Iowa. See Iowa Code 236A.19
• Foster care: means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care, to a child on a full-time basis by a person, including an adult relative or fictive kin of the child, and where the child is under the placement, care, or supervision of the department, juvenile court services, or tribes with whom the department has entered into an agreement pursuant to a court order or voluntary placement, but not including a guardian of the child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Founding group: means a person, group of persons, or education service provider that develops and submits an application for a charter school to the state board under this chapter. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full-time: means enrollment in at least twelve semester hours or the equivalent. See Iowa Code 256.230
• Full-time resident student: means an individual resident of Iowa who is enrolled at an eligible institution in a program of study including at least twelve semester hours or the trimester or quarter equivalent. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing board: means the independent board of a charter school whose members are elected or selected pursuant to the charter school contract, subject to the requirements of section 256E. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• Government: means the government of the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Governmental unit: means the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision or any department, division, board, or other agency of any of these entities. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means the same as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Guardian: means a person who is not the parent of a child, but who has been appointed by a court having jurisdiction over the child, to have a permanent self-sustaining relationship with the child and to make important decisions which have a permanent effect on the life and development of that child and to promote the general welfare of that child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Guardian: means guardian as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Guardian ad litem: means a person appointed by the court to represent the interests of a child in any judicial proceeding to which the child is a party. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Health benefit plan: means any policy or contract of insurance, indemnity, subscription, or membership issued by an insurer, health service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any similar corporation or organization, any public coverage, or any self-insured employee benefit plan, for the purpose of covering medical expenses. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Health practitioner: includes a licensed physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, dentist, optometrist, podiatric physician, or chiropractor; a resident or intern in any of such professions; a licensed dental hygienist, a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse; a physician assistant; and an emergency medical care provider certified under section 147A. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Health-related care: means services provided by a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse, on a part-time or intermittent basis, and services provided by other licensed health care professionals, on a part-time or intermittent basis. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Household income: means household income as determined using the modified adjusted gross income methodology pursuant to section 2002 of the Affordable Care Act. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Income: means all of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 252D.16
• Incompetent: means incompetent as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Individual: means an individual person or a married couple who provides child foster care in a single-family home environment and which does not meet the definition of an agency under this section. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Individual: means a parent, an obligor, or a putative father in a paternity or support proceeding. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Informal adjustment: means the disposition of a complaint without the filing of a petition and may include but is not limited to the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Informal adjustment agreement: means an agreement between an intake officer, a child who is the subject of a complaint, and the child's parent, guardian, or custodian providing for the informal adjustment of the complaint. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Innovation zone consortium: means a consortium of two or more school districts and an area education agency in which one or more of the school districts are located, that receives approval to establish an innovation zone school pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Innovation zone school: means a public school administered by a principal that is, pursuant to an innovation zone school contract entered into by an innovation zone consortium pursuant to section 256F. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• Institution: means a birthing hospital. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Institutionalized spouse: means a married individual who has resided or is likely to reside in a hospital or a health care facility for more than twenty-nine consecutive days. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• Instrumental activities of daily living: means those activities that reflect the tenant's ability to perform household and other tasks necessary to meet the tenant's needs within the community, which may include but are not limited to shopping, cooking, housekeeping, chores, and traveling within the community. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Insurer: means any entity, including a health service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any similar corporation or organization, or an employer offering self-insurance, that provides a health benefit plan, but does not include an entity that provides public coverage. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Intake: means the preliminary screening of complaints by an intake officer to determine whether the court should take some action and if so, what action. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Intake officer: means a juvenile court officer or other officer appointed by the court to perform the intake function. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Intellectual disability: means a diagnosis of intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder which diagnosis shall be made only when the onset of the person's condition was during the developmental period and based on an assessment of the person's intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Internet site: means a specific location on the internet that is determined by internet protocol numbers, by a domain name, or by both, including but not limited to domain names that use the designations ". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Interview: means the verbal exchange between the child protection worker and the child for the purpose of developing information necessary to protect the child. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Iowa health and wellness plan provider: means any provider enrolled in the medical assistance program or any participating accountable care organization. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Iowa health and wellness plan provider network: means the health care delivery network approved by the department for Iowa health and wellness plan members. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• JOBS program: means the promoting independence and self-sufficiency through employment job opportunities and basic skills program created in section 239B. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Judge: means the judge of a juvenile court. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Judicial officer: means a supreme court justice, a judge of the court of appeals, a district judge, a district associate judge, an associate juvenile judge, an associate probate judge, or a magistrate. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Juvenile: means the same as "child". See Iowa Code 232.2
• Juvenile court officer: means a person appointed as a juvenile court officer under section 602. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Juvenile detention home: means a physically restricting facility used only for the detention of children. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Juvenile diversion program: means an organized effort to coordinate services for a child who is alleged to have committed a delinquent act, when the organized effort results in the dismissal of a complaint alleging the commission of the delinquent act or results in informally proceeding without a complaint being filed against the child, and which does not result in an informal adjustment agreement involving juvenile court services or the filing of a delinquency petition. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Juvenile parole officer: means a person representing an agency which retains jurisdiction over the case of a child adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act, placed in a secure facility and subsequently released, who supervises the activities of the child until the case is dismissed. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Juvenile shelter care home: means a physically unrestricting facility used only for the shelter care of children. See Iowa Code 232.2
• lawful enforcement: includes but is not limited to the following:
   (1) Contacting or interviewing any tenant of an elder group home in private at any reasonable hour and without advance notice. See Iowa Code 231B.10
• lawful enforcement: includes but is not limited to the following:
   (1) Contacting or interviewing any tenant of an assisted living program in private at any reasonable hour and without advance notice. See Iowa Code 231C.10
• lawful enforcement: includes but is not limited to the following:
   (1) Contacting or interviewing any participant of an adult day services program in private at any reasonable hour and without advance notice. See Iowa Code 231D.5
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lender: means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property held or owing by the museum. See Iowa Code 305B.2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: includes licenses for hunting, fishing, boating, or other recreational activity. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Licensee: means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Licensing authority: means a county treasurer, county recorder or designated depositary, the supreme court, or an instrumentality, agency, board, commission, department, officer, organization, or any other entity of the state, which has authority within this state to suspend or revoke a license or to deny the renewal or issuance of a license authorizing an individual to register or operate a motor vehicle or to engage in a business, occupation, profession, recreation, or industry. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Limited benefit plan: means a period of time in which a participant or member of a participant's family is either eligible for reduced assistance only or ineligible for any assistance under the family investment program, in accordance with section 239B. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Loan: means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. See Iowa Code 305B.2
• local educational agencies: means the same as defined in the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, §9101, as codified in 20 U. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Local office: means a local office of public guardian. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Local public guardian: means an individual under contract with the department to act as a guardian, conservator, or representative payee. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Magistrate: means a judicial officer appointed under chapter 602, article 6, part 4. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Major renovations: means construction or facility improvements to a nursing facility in which the total amount expended exceeds seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Mandatory medical assistance: means payment of all or part of the costs of the care and services required to be provided by Tit. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures or assembles assistive devices and agents of that person, including an importer, a distributor, a factory branch, distributor branch, and any warrantors of the assistive device, but does not include an assistive device dealer or assistive device lessor. See Iowa Code 216E.1
• Medicaid: means payment of all or part of the costs of the care and services made in accordance with Tit. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Medicaid: means the program paying all or part of the costs of care and services provided to an individual pursuant to chapter 249A and Tit. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Medicaid program: means the program established under this chapter to provide medical assistance. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Medicaid program: means the medical assistance program created pursuant to chapter 249A. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Medical assistance: means "mandatory medical assistance" "optional medical assistance" "discretionary medical assistance" or "Medicare cost sharing" as defined in section 249A. See Iowa Code 249B.1
• Medical assistance: means "mandatory medical assistance" "optional medical assistance" "discretionary medical assistance" or "Medicare cost sharing" as each is defined in section 249A. See Iowa Code 249F.1
• Medical home: means a team approach to providing health care that originates in a primary care setting; fosters a partnership among the patient, the personal provider, and other health care professionals, and where appropriate, the patient's family; utilizes the partnership to access and integrate all medical and nonmedical health-related services across all elements of the health care system and the patient's community as needed by the patient and the patient's family to achieve maximum health potential; maintains a centralized, comprehensive record of all health-related services to promote continuity of care; and has all of the following characteristics:
   a. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Medical support: means medical support as defined in section 252E. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Medical support: means either the provision of health care coverage or the payment of cash medical support. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Medication setup: means assistance with various steps of medication administration to support a tenant's autonomy, which may include but is not limited to routine prompting, cueing and reminding, opening containers or packaging at the direction of the tenant, reading instructions or other label information, or transferring medications from the original container into suitable medication dispensing containers, reminder containers, or medication cups. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Member: means an eligible individual who is enrolled in the Iowa health and wellness plan. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Mental health professional: means a person who meets the following requirements:
   a. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Mental injury: means a nonorganic injury to a child's intellectual or psychological capacity as evidenced by an observable and substantial impairment in the child's ability to function within the child's normal range of performance and behavior, considering the child's cultural origin. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Minor parent: means an applicant or participant parent who is less than eighteen years of age and has never been married. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Miscellaneous income: means the receipts deposited to the general fund of the school district but not including any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 257.2
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mother: means a mother of the child for whom paternity is being established. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• National medical support notice: means a notice as prescribed under 42 U. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Neglect: means the failure on the part of a person responsible for the care of a child to provide for adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical or mental health treatment, supervision, or other care necessary for the child's health and welfare when financially able to do so or when offered financial or other reasonable means to do so. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Newborn infant: means the same as defined in section 233. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Nondirect care component: means the portion of the reimbursement rate under the medical assistance program attributable to administrative, environmental, property, and support care costs reported on the provider's financial and statistical report. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Nonsecure facility: means a physically unrestricting facility in which children may be placed pursuant to a dispositional order of the court made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Nursing facility: means a nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligee: means a parent or another natural person legally entitled to receive a support payment on behalf of a child. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Obligor: means a parent or another natural person legally responsible for the support of a dependent. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Obligor: means a natural person as defined in section 252G. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Obligor: means the person legally responsible for the support of a child as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Observation: means direct physical viewing of a child under the age of four by the child protection worker where the viewing is limited to the child's body other than the genitalia and pubes. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Occupancy agreement: means a written agreement entered into between an assisted living program and a tenant that clearly describes the rights and responsibilities of the assisted living program and a tenant, and other information required by rule. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• official records: means official records of the court of proceedings over which the court has jurisdiction under this chapter which includes but is not limited to the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Optional medical assistance: means payment of all or part of the costs of any or all of the care and services authorized to be provided by Tit. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Order: means a support order entered pursuant to chapter 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 252K, 598, 600B, or any other support chapter, or pursuant to a comparable statute of another state or foreign country, or an ex parte order entered pursuant to section 252E. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• overpayment: includes such funds for which the provider's administrative and judicial review remedies under Iowa Code 249A.2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: means a biological or adoptive mother or father of a child; or a father whose paternity has been established by one of the methods enumerated in section 252A. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Part-time: means enrollment in at least three semester hours or the equivalent but less than twelve semester hours or the equivalent. See Iowa Code 256.230
• Part-time resident student: means an individual resident of Iowa who is enrolled at an eligible institution in a program of study including at least three semester hours or the trimester or quarter equivalent. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Participant: means a person who is receiving full or partial family investment program assistance. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Participating accountable care organization: means an accountable care organization approved by the department to participate in the Iowa health and wellness plan provider network. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Party: means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Party: means a putative father or a mother, as named in an action. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Paternity is at issue: means any of the following conditions:
   a. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Paternity test: means and includes any form of blood, tissue, or genetic testing administered to determine the biological father of a child. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Patient day: means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• payor: means and includes but is not limited to an obligor's employer, trustee, the state of Iowa and all governmental subdivisions and agencies and any other person from whom an obligor receives income. See Iowa Code 252D.16
• Peace officer: means the same as defined in section 801. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Peace officer: means a law enforcement officer or a person designated as a peace officer by a provision of the Code. See Iowa Code 232.2
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Person responsible for the care of a child: means :
   a. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Personal care: means assistance with the essential activities of daily living which may include but are not limited to transferring, bathing, personal hygiene, dressing, grooming, and housekeeping that are essential to the health and welfare of the tenant. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Personal provider: means the patient's first point of contact in the health care system with a primary care provider who identifies the patient's health-related needs and, working with a team of health care professionals and providers of medical and nonmedical health-related services, provides for and coordinates appropriate care to address the health-related needs identified. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Petition: means a pleading the filing of which initiates formal judicial proceedings in the juvenile court. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Petitioner: includes each dependent person for whom support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter or a mother or putative father of a dependent. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Physical abuse: means any nonaccidental physical injury suffered by a child as the result of the acts or omissions of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or other person legally responsible for the child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Physical examination: means direct physical viewing, touching, and medically necessary manipulation of any area of the child's body by a physician licensed under chapter 148. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plaintiff: means a vulnerable elder who files a petition under this chapter and includes a substitute petitioner who files a petition on behalf of a vulnerable elder under this chapter. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• plan: means the Iowa health and wellness plan established under this chapter. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Plan administrator: means the employer or sponsor that offers the health benefit plan or the person to whom the duty of plan administrator is delegated by the employer or sponsor offering the health benefit plan, by written agreement of the parties. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Preadoptive care: means the provision of parental nurturing on a full-time basis to a child in foster care by a person who has signed a preadoptive placement agreement with the department for the purposes of proceeding with a legal adoption of the child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Predisposition investigation: means an investigation conducted for the purpose of collecting information relevant to the court's fashioning of an appropriate disposition of a delinquency case over which the court has jurisdiction. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Predisposition report: is a report furnished to the court which contains the information collected during a predisposition investigation. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Preschool program: means the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children created in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• Presence: means a location in Iowa at which a student participates in any structured activity related to a school's distance education course of instruction, with the exception of proctored examinations. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• Present danger of elder abuse: means a situation in which the defendant has recently threatened the vulnerable elder with initial or additional elder abuse, or the potential exists for misappropriation, misuse, or removal of the funds, benefits, property, resources, belongings, or assets of the vulnerable elder combined with reasonable grounds to believe that elder abuse is likely to occur. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Preventive care services: means care that is provided to an individual to promote health, prevent disease, or diagnose disease. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Primary care provider: means a physician who provides primary care who is a family or general practitioner, a pediatrician, an internist, an obstetrician, or a gynecologist; an advanced registered nurse practitioner; or a physician assistant. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Primary care provider: includes but is not limited to any of the following licensed or certified health care professionals who provide primary care:
   a. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Primary medical provider: means the personal provider trained to provide first contact and continuous and comprehensive care to a member, chosen by a member or to whom a member is assigned under the Iowa health and wellness plan. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Private trust funds: means any and all endowment funds and any and all moneys received by a department or establishment from private persons to be held in trust and expended as directed by the donor. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Pro se: means a person proceeding on the person's own behalf without legal representation. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation: means a legal status which is created by a dispositional order of the court in a case where a child has been adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act, which exists for a specified period of time, and which places the child under the supervision of a juvenile court officer or other person or agency designated by the court. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• program: means an entity that provides assisted living. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Property tax adjustment: means state aid distributed to those school districts in which the property tax revenues generated under this chapter would be higher than the revenues generated under Iowa Code 257.2
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provider: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, or institution which is providing or has been approved to provide medical assistance to recipients under this chapter. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Provider: means a current or future owner or operator of a nursing facility that provides medical assistance program services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Public assistance: means foster care costs paid by the department pursuant to chapter 234 or assistance provided pursuant to chapter 239B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Public assistance: means the supplemental nutrition assistance program or SNAP, the Medicaid program or Medicaid as defined in section 249A. See Iowa Code 239.1
• Public coverage: means health care benefits provided by any form of federal or state medical assistance, including but not limited to benefits provided under chapter 249A or 514I, or under comparable laws of another state, foreign country, or Indian nation or tribe. See Iowa Code 252E.1
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public guardian: means the state public guardian or a local public guardian. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Public guardianship services: means guardianship, conservatorship, or representative payee services provided by the state public guardian or a local public guardian. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Putative father: means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Putative father: means a person who has been identified by the mother of a child as the child's potential biological father or a person who claims to be the biological father of a child and who was not married to the child's mother at the time of the child's birth, when all of the following circumstances apply:
   a. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Putative father: means a person alleged to be the biological father of a child. See Iowa Code 252F.1
• Qualified student: means a resident student who has established financial need and who is meeting all program requirements. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Real-time eligibility system: means real-time electronic access to a system that allows verification of all applicable public assistance program eligibility information based on the most recent information available to the department through nonmodeled earned and unearned income, such as commercially available wage data. See Iowa Code 239.1
• Reasonable and prudent parent standard: means the same as defined in section 237. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Reasonable and prudent parent standard: means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parenting decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of a child, while at the same time encouraging the emotional and developmental growth of a child, that a caregiver shall use when determining whether to allow a child in foster care under the placement, care, or supervision of the department to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, or social activities. See Iowa Code 237.1
• Recipient: means a person who receives medical assistance under this chapter. See Iowa Code 249A.2
• Recipient: means an individual who is receiving public assistance benefits in the state. See Iowa Code 239.1
• Recognized accrediting entity: means a nationally recognized accrediting entity that the department recognizes as having specific assisted living program standards equivalent to the standards established by the department for assisted living programs. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Registry: means the central registry for child abuse information established in section 235A. See Iowa Code 232.68
• relative: includes the parent of a sibling of the child if the sibling's parent's parental rights were not previously terminated in relation to the child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Repayment receipts: means those moneys collected by a department or establishment that supplement an appropriation made by the legislature. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Representative payee: means an individual appointed by a government entity to receive funds on behalf of a client pursuant to federal regulation. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• Resident parent: means the parent with whom the child is residing at the time the support collection or paternity determination services provided in sections 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
• Residual parental rights and responsibilities: means those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person of the child. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Respondent: includes each person against whom a proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Responsible person: means a parent, relative, guardian, or another person legally liable for the support of a child or a child's caretaker. See Iowa Code 252C.1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
   a. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• School board: means a board of directors regularly elected by the registered voters of an accredited public school district. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• School board: means a board of directors regularly elected by the registered voters of a school district. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• School district: means a school corporation organized under chapter 274. See Iowa Code 257.2
• School district approved to participate in the preschool program: means a school district that meets the school district requirements under section 256C. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• seal: shall include an impression upon the paper alone, or upon wax, a wafer affixed to the paper, or an official stamp of a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Secure facility: means a physically restricting facility in which children adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act may be placed pursuant to a dispositional order of the court. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Sex trafficking: means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of commercial sexual activity as defined in section 710A. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Sex trafficking victim: means a victim of sex trafficking. See Iowa Code 232.68
• Sexual abuse: means the commission of a sex offense as defined by the penal law. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Shelter care: means the temporary care of a child in a physically unrestricting facility at any time between a child's initial contact with juvenile authorities and the final judicial disposition of the child's case. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Shelter care hearing: means a hearing at which the court determines whether it is necessary to place or retain a child in shelter care. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Sibling: means an individual who is related to another individual by blood, adoption, or affinity through a common legal or biological parent, regardless of whether a common legal or biological parent's parental rights have been terminated. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Significant change: means a major decline or improvement in the tenant's status which does not normally resolve itself without further interventions by staff or by implementing standard disease-related clinical interventions that have an impact on the tenant's mental, physical, or functional health status. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• SNAP: means benefits provided by the federal program administered through 7 C. See Iowa Code 239.1
• Social investigation: means an investigation conducted for the purpose of collecting information relevant to the court's fashioning of an appropriate disposition of a child in need of assistance case over which the court has jurisdiction. See Iowa Code 232.2
• social records: means all records made with respect to a child in connection with proceedings over which the court has jurisdiction under this chapter other than official records and includes but is not limited to the records made and compiled by intake officers, predisposition reports, and reports of physical and mental examinations. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Social report: means a report furnished to the court which contains the information collected during a social investigation. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Special education: means classroom, home, hospital, institutional, or other instruction designed to meet the needs of children requiring special education as defined in this subsection; transportation and corrective and supporting services required to assist children requiring special education, as defined in this subsection, in taking advantage of, or responding to, educational programs and opportunities, as defined by rules of the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256B.2
• Special fund: means any and all government fees and other revenue receipts earmarked to finance a governmental agency to which no general fund appropriation is made by the state. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Specified relative: means a person who is, or was at any time, one of the following relatives of an applicant or participant child, by means of blood relationship, marriage, or adoption, or is a spouse of one of the following relatives:
   a. See Iowa Code 239B.1
• Stands in a position of trust or confidence: means the person has any of the following relationships relative to the vulnerable elder:
   a. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• state: means the general interest held by the people in the health, safety, welfare, and protection of all children living in this state. See Iowa Code 232.90
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
• State agency: means a board, department, commission or authority of or acting on behalf of the state having the power to enter into contracts with or without the approval of the executive council to acquire property in its own name or in the name of the state. See Iowa Code 7D.34
• State agency: means any executive department, commission, board, institution, division, bureau, office, agency, or other executive entity of state government. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256E.2
• State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256F.2
• State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
• State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256.2
• State funds: means any and all moneys appropriated by the legislature, or money collected by or for the state, or an agency thereof, pursuant to authority granted by any of its laws. See Iowa Code 8.2
• state individual income tax: means the taxes computed under section 422. See Iowa Code 257.21
• State office: means the state office of public guardian. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• State percent of growth: means the percent of growth which is established by statute pursuant to section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
• State public guardian: means the administrator of the state office of public guardian. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• State registrar: means state registrar as defined in section 144. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• State supplementary assistance: means cash payments made to individuals:
   a. See Iowa Code 249.1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• step change: means a change designated in a support order specifying the amount of the child support obligation as the number of children entitled to support under the order changes. See Iowa Code 252B.20
• Stepchild: means the same as defined in section 450. See Iowa Code 256.212
• Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by a school. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Subpoena or warrant: means a subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or support proceeding initiated or obtained by child support services or a child support agency as defined in section 252H. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Substantial compliance: means a level of compliance with this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter such that any identified insufficiencies pose no greater risk to tenant health or safety than the potential for causing minimal harm. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Substitute petitioner: means a family or household member, guardian, conservator, attorney in fact, or guardian ad litem for a vulnerable elder, or other interested person who files a petition under this chapter. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplemental state aid: means the amount by which state cost per pupil and district cost per pupil will increase from one budget year to the next as the result of the state percent of growth. See Iowa Code 257.2
• Support: means support or support payments as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Support order: means an order for support issued pursuant to chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252D, 252E, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country as registered with the clerk of the district court or certified to child support services. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• support payments: means any amount which the court or administrative agency may require a person to pay for the benefit of a child under a temporary order or a final judgment or decree entered under chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other comparable chapter, and may include child support, maintenance, medical support as defined in chapter 252E, spousal support, and any other term used to describe these obligations. See Iowa Code 252D.16
• Taking into custody: means an act which would be governed by the laws of arrest under the criminal code if the subject of the act were an adult. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Telecommunications: means narrowcast communications through systems that are directed toward a narrowly defined audience and includes interactive live communications. See Iowa Code 256.2
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenant: means an individual who receives assisted living services through a certified assisted living program. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Tenant advocate: means the office of long-term care ombudsman established in section 231. See Iowa Code 231C.2
• Termination hearing: means a hearing held to determine whether the court should terminate a parent-child relationship. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Termination of the parent-child relationship: means the divestment by the court of the parent's and child's privileges, duties, and powers with respect to each other. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer of assets: means any transfer or assignment of a legal or equitable interest in property, as defined in section 702. See Iowa Code 249F.1
• Transferee: means the person who receives a transfer of assets. See Iowa Code 249F.1
• Transferor: means the person who makes a transfer of assets. See Iowa Code 249F.1
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undue influence: means taking advantage of a person's role, relationship, or authority to improperly change or obtain control over the actions or decision making of a vulnerable elder against the vulnerable elder's best interests. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Unencumbered balance: means the unobligated balance of an appropriation after charging thereto all unpaid liabilities for goods and services and all contracts or agreements payable from an appropriation or a special fund. See Iowa Code 8.2
• Unexpended fund balance: means a school district's unreserved and undesignated fund balances. See Iowa Code 257.2
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Value-based reimbursement: means a payment methodology that links provider reimbursement to improved performance by health care providers by holding health care providers accountable for both the cost and quality of care provided. See Iowa Code 249N.2
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Voluntary placement: means a foster care placement in which the department provides foster care services to a child according to a signed placement agreement between the department and the child's parent or guardian. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Vulnerable elder: means a person sixty years of age or older who is unable to protect himself or herself from elder abuse as a result of a mental or physical condition or because of a personal circumstance which results in an increased risk of harm to the person. See Iowa Code 235F.1
• Waiver hearing: means a hearing at which the court determines whether it shall waive its jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed a delinquent act so that the state may prosecute the child as if the child were an adult. See Iowa Code 232.2
• Ward: means the individual for whom a guardianship or conservatorship is established. See Iowa Code 231E.3
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Withdrawal of a certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by child support services certifying that the certificate of noncompliance is withdrawn and that the licensing authority may proceed with issuance, reinstatement, or renewal of an individual's license. See Iowa Code 252J.1
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1