Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 107 > Part 3 > Chapter 4 - Health Care Workforce Training Programs

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Council: means the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• County: includes "city and county. See California Insurance Code 14
• County: includes "city and county. See California Public Resources Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Financial Code 14
• department: means the Department of Transportation. See California Public Resources Code 33910
• Domestic: means organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 26
• 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}
• Family physician: means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services to individuals and families and who has received specialized training in an approved family medicine residency for three years after graduation from an accredited medical school. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Foreign: means not organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 27
• Graduate medical education: means residency programs for education or training in one or more specialties or subspecialties following graduation from medical school. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Health professions education and training: means any formal organized education or training undertaken for the purpose of gaining knowledge and skills necessary to practice a specific health profession or to provide a role in a health care setting. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Primary care physician: means a physician who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services, and has received specialized training in the areas of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, or pediatrics. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train midwives: means programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives, as those terms are defined in Section 128297. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that provides postgraduate fellowships for clinical training in primary care. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that is operated by a California school of medicine or nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California or by the Trustees of the California State University, or that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train registered nurses: means a program that is operated by a California school of nursing and approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Insurance Code 18
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.