Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 16 > Chapter 78 - Access to Reproductive and Gender- Affirming Health Care Services

• between: as used in this title in respect to a specified age of a student, shall mean the period of time commencing on the birthday of the child when he or she becomes the age first specified and ending on the day next preceding the birthday of the child when he or she becomes the age last specified. See
• Candidate: means an individual who has taken any affirmative action to become a candidate for public office. See
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Election: means the procedure whereby the voters of this State, or any of its political subdivisions, select persons to fill public offices or act on public questions. See
• filed: means deposited in the regularly maintained office of the official with whom the filing is to be made. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Gender-affirming health care readiness: means each institution's preparedness to provide gender-affirming health care services to students or assist students in obtaining gender-affirming health care services, including having in place equipment, protocols, patient educational materials, informational websites, and training for staff; provided, however, that gender-affirming health care readiness may include the provision of gender-affirming health care services. See
• general election: as used in this chapter , shall be deemed to include a special election, unless the context requires a different interpretation. See
• Institution: means the University of Vermont or a college in the Vermont State College system. See
• Justice: when applied to a person, other than a Justice of the Supreme Court, shall mean a justice of the peace for the county for which he or she is elected or appointed. See
• minor political party: is a ny political party that is not a major political party. See
• Person: means any individual, business entity, labor organization, public interest group, or other organization, incorporated or unincorporated. See
• Political party: is a ny group of individuals that has organized and filed its certificate of organization with the Secretary of State, pursuant to chapter 45 of this title. See
• Primary: means any election that precedes a general or special election, for the purpose of permitting political parties to nominate, from among all of the candidates for any office, only that number of candidates equal to the number of persons to be elected to that office at the succeeding general or special election. See
• Reproductive health care readiness: means each institution's preparedness to provide reproductive health care services to students or assist students in obtaining reproductive health care services, including having in place equipment, protocols, patient educational materials, informational websites, and training for staff; provided, however, that reproductive health care readiness may include the provision of reproductive health care services. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of State. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• sworn: shall include affirmed. See
• Town: includes "city. See