Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action shall: include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Health. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6205
• Certificate or certification: shall mean a voluntary process by which a statutory regulatory entity grants recognition to an individual who has met certain prerequisite qualifications specified by such regulatory entity and who may assume or use certified in the title or designation to perform prescribed tasks. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6206
• Chairperson: shall mean the chairperson of the Health and Human Services Committee of the Legislature. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6206.01
• Committee: shall mean the technical committee created in section Nebraska Statutes 71-6207
• Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Credentialing: shall mean the process of regulating health professions by means of registration, certification, or licensure. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6207.01
• Credentialing shall mean the process of regulating health professions by: means of registration, certification, or licensure. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6207.01
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Directed review: shall mean a review conducted pursuant to section Nebraska Statutes 71-6207.02
• Director: shall mean the Director of Public Health of the Division of Public Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6208
• Division: shall mean the Division of Public Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6208.01
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Grandfather clause: shall mean a provision in a regulatory statute applicable to practitioners actively engaged in the regulated health profession prior to the effective date of the regulatory statute which exempts the practitioners from meeting the prerequisite qualifications set forth in the regulatory statute to perform prescribed occupational tasks. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6209
• 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.
• Health professional group not previously regulated: shall mean those persons or groups who are not currently licensed or otherwise regulated under the Uniform Credentialing Act, who are determined by the director to be qualified by training, education, or experience to perform the functions prescribed in this section, and whose principal functions, customarily performed for remuneration, are to render services directly or indirectly to individuals for the purpose of:

  (1) Preventing physical, mental, or emotional injury or illness, excluding persons acting in their capacity as clergy. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6211

• Inspection: shall mean the periodic examination of practitioners by a state agency in order to ascertain whether the practitioner's occupation is being carried out in a manner consistent with the public health, safety, and welfare. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6212
• 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.
• Peace officer: shall include sheriffs, coroners, jailers, marshals, police officers, state highway patrol officers, members of the National Guard on active service by direction of the Governor during periods of emergency, and all other persons with similar authority to make arrests. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Practitioner: shall mean an individual who has achieved knowledge and skill by the practice of a specified health profession and is actively engaged in such profession. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6215
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Professional license shall mean an individual nontransferable authorization to work in a health profession based on qualifications which: include graduation from an accredited or approved program and acceptable performance on a qualifying examination or series of examinations. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6214
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Regulated health professions: shall mean those persons or groups who are currently licensed or otherwise regulated under the Uniform Credentialing Act, who are qualified by training, education, or experience to perform the functions prescribed in this section, and whose principal functions, customarily performed for remuneration, are to render services directly or indirectly to individuals for the purpose of:

  (1) Preventing physical, mental, or emotional injury or illness. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6218

• Regulatory entity: shall mean any board, commission, agency, division, or other unit or subunit of state government which regulates one or more professions, occupations, industries, businesses, or other endeavors in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6219
• Review body: shall mean the committee, the board, or the director charged with reviewing applications for new credentialing or change in scope of practice. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6219.01
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• State agency: shall include every state office, department, board, commission, regulatory entity, and agency of the state and, when provided specifically by law to be a state agency for purposes of this section, programs and activities involving less than the full responsibility of a state agency. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6220
• State agency shall: include every state office, department, board, commission, regulatory entity, and agency of the state and, when provided specifically by law to be a state agency for purposes of this section, programs and activities involving less than the full responsibility of a state agency. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6220
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Welfare: shall include the ability of the public to achieve ready access to high quality health care services at reasonable costs. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6220.01
• Welfare shall: include the ability of the public to achieve ready access to high quality health care services at reasonable costs. See Nebraska Statutes 71-6220.01
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801