Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 2 > Article 5 > Chapter 47 - Health Care Cost Oversight Task Force

• administrative law judge: means an individual who presides over an administrative proceeding that results in a finding of fact determining the legal rights, duties, or privileges of a party after an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing. See Indiana Code 4-15-10.5-3
• Affected class: means :

  Indiana Code 4-15-12-1

• Affirmative action policy: means the state's affirmative action policy established in section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• Agency: means any state administration, agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, division, institution, office, service, or other similar body of state government created or established by law. See Indiana Code 4-15-10-1
• agency: means an authority, board, branch, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, division, office, service, or other instrumentality of the executive, including the administrative, department of state government. See Indiana Code 4-15-10.5-4
• 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.
• Appointing authority: means the individual or group of individuals who have the power by law or by lawfully delegated authority to make appointment to a position in an agency. See Indiana Code 4-15-10-1
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• director: means the director of the office of administrative law proceedings. See Indiana Code 4-15-10.5-5
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Employee: means an employee of an agency except an elected official. See Indiana Code 4-15-10-1
• 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.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• medical record: means written or printed information possessed by a provider (as defined in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Minorities: means persons identified as Blacks, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• office: means the office of administrative law proceedings established by section 7 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-10.5-6
• Office: means the Indiana affirmative action office created by this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• officer or employee of the state: means the following:

  Indiana Code 4-15-11-1

• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Persons with disabilities: means all persons who by reason of physical or mental disability are unable to achieve full vocational participation. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• State agency: means any department, agency, commission, division, authority, board, bureau, or office of the state under the executive authority of the governor, except any state educational institution. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Supervisor: means an individual who oversees the daily activity of an employee. See Indiana Code 4-15-10-1
• task force: refers to the health care cost oversight task force established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 2-5-47-2
• Underutilization: means having fewer members of an affected class in a particular job category and classification than would be reasonably expected by their availability in the labor market for that job category and classification. See Indiana Code 4-15-12-1
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5