Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 23-95 - Nondiscrimination in Access to Anatomical Gifts and Organ Transplants Act (Isaac's Law)

• 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.
• Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation or transfusion. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3
• Auxiliary aids or services: means an aid or service that is used to provide information to an individual with a cognitive, developmental, intellectual, neurological, or physical disability and is available in a format or manner that allows the individual to better understand the information. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Covered entity: means :

  (i)  Any licensed provider of healthcare services, including licensed healthcare practitioners, hospitals, nursing facilities, laboratories, intermediate care facilities, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, institutions for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and prison health centers;

  (ii)  Any entity responsible for matching anatomical gift donors to potential recipients. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Disability: means a disability as defined in § 42-87-1 in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, at Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• 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.
• Organ transplant: means the transplantation or transfusion of a part of a human body into the body of another for the purpose of treating or curing a medical condition. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Qualified recipient: means an individual who has a disability and meets the essential eligibility requirements for the receipt of an anatomical gift with or without any of the following:

  (i)  Individuals or entities available to support and assist the individual with an anatomical gift or transplantation;

  (ii)  Auxiliary aids or services;

  (iii)  Reasonable modifications to the policies, practices, or procedures of a covered entity, including modifications to allow for either or both of the following:

  (A)  Communication with one or more individuals or entities available to support or assist with the recipient's care and medication after surgery or transplantation;

  (B)  Consideration of support networks available to the individual, including family, friends, and home and community-based services, including home and community-based services funded through Medicaid, Medicare, another health plan in which the individual is enrolled, or any program or source of funding available to the individual, when determining whether the individual is able to comply with post-transplant medical requirements. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-95-3

• 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.
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8