Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 752 > Act 318 of 2014 - Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tracking and Reporting

• 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: means the sexual assault evidence kit tracking and reporting commission created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 752.961
• 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.
• 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.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Michigan domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment board: means the Michigan domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment board created under EO 2012-17. See Michigan Laws 752.961
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Sexual assault evidence kit: means that term as defined in section 21527 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 752.961
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o