Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 106 > Part 5 > Chapter 3 > Article 3 - Definitions

• Act: means the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Bond Act constituting Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 125290. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Basic research: means the investigation of basic mechanisms underlying stem cell biology, cellular plasticity, cellular differentiation, and other vital research opportunities. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Committee: means the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Finance Committee created pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 125291. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Early development: means discovery of promising new stem cell-based technologies that could be translated to enable broad use and ultimately improve patient care. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Facilities: means buildings, building leases, or capital equipment. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Fund: means the California Stem Cell Research and Disease Cures Fund created pursuant to Section 125291. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Grant: means a grant, loan, or guarantee. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Grantee: means a recipient of a grant from the institute. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Human reproductive cloning: means the practice of creating or attempting to create a human being by transferring the nucleus from a human cell into an egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed for the purpose of implanting the resulting product in a uterus to initiate a pregnancy. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Institute: means the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Quorum: means at least 65 percent of the members who are eligible to vote. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Research funding: includes interdisciplinary scientific and medical funding for all stages of research, including, but not limited to, stem cell discovery research, early development, translational research, therapy development, and the development of treatments through clinical trials, including, without limitation, the reimbursement of patient-qualified costs for research participants and their caregivers pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 125290. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Stem cell discovery research: means basic research, early development, and the discovery, evaluation, or improvement of tools and technologies in the fields of stem cell and genetic research and other vital research opportunities. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Vital research opportunity: means scientific and medical research and technologies, including, but not limited to, genetics, personalized medicine, and aging as a pathology, and/or any stem cell research not actually funded by the institute under paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 125290. See California Health and Safety Code 125292.10