§ 8.1 Title
§ 8.2 Definitions
§ 8.3 Governor
§ 8.3A Capital project planning and budgeting — governor’s duties
§ 8.4 Department of management
§ 8.5 General powers and duties
§ 8.6 Specific powers and duties
§ 8.7 Reporting of gifts and bequests received
§ 8.8 Special olympics fund — appropriation
§ 8.9 Grants enterprise management office
§ 8.10 Facilitator’s duties
§ 8.11 Grant applications — minority impact statements
§ 8.21 Budget transmitted
§ 8.22 Nature and contents of budget
§ 8.22A Revenue estimating conference
§ 8.23 Annual departmental estimates
§ 8.25 Tentative budget
§ 8.26 Hearings
§ 8.27 Preparation of budget
§ 8.28 Supplemental estimates
§ 8.29 Regents universities — uniform accounting system
§ 8.30 Availability of appropriations
§ 8.31 Allotments of appropriations — exceptions — modifications
§ 8.32 Conditional availability of appropriations
§ 8.33 Time limit on obligations — reversion
§ 8.34 Charging off unexpended appropriations
§ 8.35 General supervisory control
§ 8.35A Information to be given to legislative services agency
§ 8.36 Fiscal year
§ 8.36A Full-time equivalent positions
§ 8.38 Misuse of appropriations
§ 8.39 Use of appropriations — transfer
§ 8.40 Penalty — removal — impeachment
§ 8.41 Federal funds — deposit — block grant plans — affected political subdivisions
§ 8.43 Salary adjustment fund
§ 8.44 Reporting additional funds received
§ 8.45 Purchase of real estate by state departments
§ 8.46 Lease-purchase — reporting
§ 8.47 Service contracts
§ 8.51 Political subdivisions — fiscal year — unexpended funds
§ 8.52 Planning responsibility
§ 8.53 GAAP deficit — GAAP implementation
§ 8.54 General fund expenditure limitation
§ 8.55 Iowa economic emergency fund
§ 8.56 Cash reserve fund
§ 8.57 Annual appropriations — reduction of GAAP deficit — rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund — sports wagering receipts fund
§ 8.57A Environment first fund
§ 8.57B Water quality infrastructure fund — creation — appropriations
§ 8.57C Technology reinvestment fund
§ 8.57E Taxpayer relief fund
§ 8.57F State bond repayment fund
§ 8.57G Iowa coronavirus fiscal recovery fund
§ 8.57H Iowa coronavirus capital projects fund
§ 8.58 Exemption from automatic application
§ 8.59 Appropriations freeze
§ 8.60 Use of designated moneys
§ 8.61 Trust fund information
§ 8.62 Use of reversions
§ 8.70 Lean enterprise office
§ 8.75 Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund

Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 8 - Department of Management -- Budget and Financial Control Act

  • Absent parent: means the parent who either cannot be located or who is located and is not residing with the child at the time the support collection or paternity determination services provided in sections 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Accelerated career education program: means a program established pursuant to section 260G. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Accessible: means any of the following, unless otherwise provided in the support order:
  • Account: means "account" as defined in section 524. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Accountable care organization: means a risk-bearing, integrated health care organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that ties provider reimbursement to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an attributed population of patients. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Active duty: means "active duty" as defined in 10 U. See Iowa Code 261.5
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the division. See Iowa Code 234.1
  • Administrator: means the administrator of that division of the department designated by the director of human services to administer this chapter or the administrator's designee. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the child support recovery unit of the department of human services, or the administrator's designee. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Administrator: means the same as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 235.1
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the division of adult, children, and family services of the department of human services. See Iowa Code 251.1
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the child support recovery unit of the department of human services or the administrator's designee. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Advisory council: means a council appointed by the school board of directors of a charter school or an innovation zone consortium pursuant to section 256F. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Agency: means a person, as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Agreement: means a program agreement referred to in section 260G. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • 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.
  • Applicant: means a person authorized to regularly lend moneys to be secured by a mortgage on real property in this state, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed attorney, a participating abstractor, or a licensed closing agent. See Iowa Code 16.92
  • 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
  • Approved local program: means a school district's program for four-year-old children approved by the department of education to provide high quality preschool instruction. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assessment: means the hospital health care access assessment imposed pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Assessment data: means any of the following information pertaining to the department's evaluation of a family:
  • 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.
  • Attendance center: means a school building that contains classrooms used for instructional purposes for elementary, middle, or secondary school students. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Attendance center: means a public school building that contains classrooms used for instructional purposes for elementary, middle, or secondary school students. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Attorney in fact: means an agent under a power of attorney pursuant to chapter 633B or an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care pursuant to chapter 144B. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Authority: means the Iowa higher education loan authority created by this chapter, and "members of the authority" means those persons appointed to the authority pursuant to section 261A. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Authority: means the Iowa finance authority. See Iowa Code 260C.71
  • Authority: means the Iowa advance funding authority created by this chapter. See Iowa Code 257C.3
  • Authority loans: means loans by the authority to institutions of higher education for the purpose of funding education loans. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Base year: means the school year ending during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Basic coverage: means health care coverage that at a minimum provides coverage for emergency care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, physician services whether provided within or outside a hospital setting, and laboratory and x-ray services. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Birthing hospital: means a private or public hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B that has a licensed obstetric unit or is licensed to provide obstetric services, or a licensed birthing center associated with a hospital. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Block grant: means funds from the federal government awarded in broad program areas within which the state is given considerable latitude in determining how funds are used and for which the state develops its own plan for spending according to general federal guidelines. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Board: means the governing board of the authority created in section 257C. See Iowa Code 257C.3
  • Board: means a board of directors of a community college. See Iowa Code 260C.56
  • Board of directors: means the board of directors of a community college. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Board of directors: means the board of directors of a community college. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Bond resolution: means a resolution of the authority and the trust agreement, if any, and any supplements or amendments to the resolution and agreement, authorizing the issuance of and providing for the terms and conditions applicable to obligations. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Bond service charges: means principal, including mandatory sinking fund requirements for retirement of obligations, and interest, and redemption premium, if any, required to be paid by the authority on obligations. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Bonds: means revenue bonds which are payable solely as provided in this section and section 260C. See Iowa Code 260C.71
  • Bonds: means bonds, notes and other obligations issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 257C.3
  • Bonds or notes: means revenue bonds or revenue notes which are payable solely from net rents, profits, and other income derived from the operation of residence halls, dormitories, incidental facilities, and additions. See Iowa Code 260C.56
  • Borrower: means a student who has received an education loan or a parent who has received or agreed to pay an education loan. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Budget: means the budget document required by this chapter to be transmitted to the legislature. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Budget adjustment: means an adjustment to the regular program district cost of a school district for school districts in which the regular program district cost for a year would be less than the regular program district cost for the previous year. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Budget year: means the school year beginning during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Career academy: means a career academy established under section 258. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • caregiver: means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter with which a child in foster care has been placed or a juvenile shelter care home approved under chapter 232 in which a child in foster care has been placed. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Caretaker: means a related or nonrelated person who has the responsibility for the protection, care, or custody of a dependent adult as a result of assuming the responsibility voluntarily, by contract, through employment, or by order of the court. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Caretaker: means a person who is a staff member of a facility or program who provides care, protection, or services to a dependent adult voluntarily, by contract, through employment, or by order of the court. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Caretaker: means a parent, relative, guardian, or another person who is responsible for paying foster care costs pursuant to chapter 234 or whose needs are included in an assistance payment made pursuant to chapter 239B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Caretaker: means a related or nonrelated person who has the responsibility for the protection, care, or custody of a vulnerable elder as a result of assuming the responsibility voluntarily, by contract, through employment, or by order of the court. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Cash medical support: is a n obligation separate from any monetary amount a parent is ordered to pay for uncovered medical expenses pursuant to the guidelines established pursuant to section 598. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Categorical grant: means federal funds applied for and received by the state which are in the form of entitlements, formula grants, discretionary grants, open-ended entitlements or another form that may be used only for specific narrowly defined activities except funds for student aid and assistance; grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for research and training for which no appropriated matching funds are required; and reimbursements for services rendered. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Certificate: means industrial new jobs training certificates issued pursuant to section 260E. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by the child support recovery unit certifying that the named individual is not in compliance with any of the following:
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • 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.
  • Charter school: means a school established in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Charter school: means a charter school established in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • Child: means either a person less than eighteen years of age or a person eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years of age who meets all of the following conditions:
  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Child: means child as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Child: means the same as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 235.1
  • Child: means a person for whom child or medical support may be ordered pursuant to chapter 234, 239B, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 252K, 598, 600B, or any other chapter of the Code or pursuant to a comparable statute of another state or foreign country. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age or a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Child: means a person who is less than age eighteen or a person who is age eighteen but less than age nineteen and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching age nineteen. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Child abuse information: means any or all of the following data maintained by the department in a manual or automated data storage system and individually identified:
  • Child foster care: means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care, to a child on a full-time basis by a person, including a relative of the child if the relative is licensed under this chapter, but not including a guardian of the child. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Child support agency: means child support agency as defined in section 252H. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • child support recovery unit: means unit as defined in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • child support recovery unit: means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Child welfare services: means social welfare services for the protection and care of children who are homeless, dependent or neglected, or in danger of becoming delinquent, or who have a mental illness or an intellectual disability or other developmental disability, including, when necessary, care and maintenance in a foster care facility. See Iowa Code 235.1
  • Children requiring special education: includes children receiving special education services, who reach the age of twenty-one during an academic year, and who elect to receive special education services until the end of the academic year. See Iowa Code 256B.2
  • clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Code: means the Code of Iowa. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Coercion: means communication or conduct which unduly compels a vulnerable elder to act or refrain from acting against the vulnerable elder's will and against the vulnerable elder's best interests. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Combined district cost per pupil: is a n amount determined by adding together the regular program district cost per pupil for a year and the special education support services district cost per pupil for that year as calculated under section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Combined state cost per pupil: is a per pupil amount determined by adding together the regular program state cost per pupil for a year and the special education support services state cost per pupil for that year as calculated under section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Commission: means the college student aid commission created pursuant to section 261. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Commission: means the college student aid commission. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • commission: means the midwestern higher education compact commission. See Iowa Code 261D.1
  • Commission: means the college student aid commission created pursuant to section 261. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Committee: means the school budget review committee. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Community college: means a publicly supported school which may offer programs of adult and continuing education, lifelong learning, community education, and up to two years of liberal arts, preprofessional, or occupational instruction partially fulfilling the requirements for a baccalaureate degree but confers no more than an associate degree; or which offers as the whole or as part of the curriculum up to two years of career and technical education, training, or retraining to persons who are preparing to enter the labor market. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Community college: means a community college established under chapter 260C. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Community college: means a community college established under chapter 260C or a consortium of two or more community colleges. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Community spouse: means an individual who has not resided or is not likely to reside in a hospital or a health care facility for more than twenty-nine consecutive days and is married to an institutionalized spouse. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Community spouse resource allowance: means a resource amount established for a community spouse pursuant to state policy adopted in accordance with the federal Social Security Act, section 1924(f)(2), as codified in 42 U. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Compensation: means payment owed by the payor of income for:
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Complete replacement: means completed construction on a new nursing facility to replace an existing licensed and certified facility. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Concurrent enrollment: means any course offered to students in grades nine through twelve during the regular school year approved by the board of directors of a school district through a contractual agreement between a community college and the school district that meets the provisions of section 257. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Conference report: The compromise product negotiated by the conference committee. The "conference report" is submitted to each chamber for its consideration, such as approval or disapproval.
  • Confidentiality: means the withholding of information from any manner of communication, public or private. See Iowa Code 235A.13
  • Conservator: means the same as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Consumer: means any one of the following:
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractor: means a natural person who is eighteen years of age or older, who performs labor in this state to whom a payor of income makes payments which are not subject to withholding and for whom the payor of income is required by the internal revenue service to complete a 1099-MISC form. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • 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.
  • Cost of attendance: means the amount defined by the institution for the purpose of the guaranteed student loan program as defined under Tit. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Course of instruction: means a postsecondary educational program that a school offers through in-person instruction, distance delivery, correspondence study methods, or any combination thereof. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Court: means the district court. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Court: means the district court. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Court: shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Court: shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Court order: means a judgment or order requiring the payment of a set or determinable amount of monetary support. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Court order: means a judgment or order of a court of this state or another state requiring the payment of a set or determinable amount of monetary support. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Court order: means "support order" as defined in section 252J. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • coverage: means providing and paying for the medical needs of a dependent through a health benefit plan. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Covered benefits: means covered benefits as specified in section 249N. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Credit union: means "credit union" as defined in section 533. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Date of commencement of the project: means the date of the agreement. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Days: means calendar days. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands, but does not imply a sealed instrument; and the words "bond" and "indenture" do not necessarily imply a seal, and the word "undertaking" means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Default insurance: means insurance insuring education loans, authority loans, or obligations against default. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Default reserve fund: means a fund established pursuant to a bond resolution for the purpose of securing education loans, authority loans, or obligations. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Degree: means a postsecondary credential conferring on the recipient the title of associate, bachelor, master, or doctor, or an equivalent title, signifying educational attainment based on study which may be supplemented by experience or achievement testing. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Degree: means a postsecondary credential conferring on the recipient the title of associate, bachelor, master, or doctor, or an equivalent title, signifying educational attainment based on study which may be supplemented by experience or achievement testing. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Department: means the department of inspections and appeals. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Department: means the department of human services, which includes but is not limited to the child support recovery unit, or any comparable support enforcement agency of another state. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 235A.13
  • Dependent: shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Dependent: shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Dependent: means a child, or an obligee for whom a court may order health care coverage pursuant to section 252E. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Dependent adult: means a person eighteen years of age or older who is unable to protect the person's own interests or unable to adequately perform or obtain services necessary to meet essential human needs, as a result of a physical or mental condition which requires assistance from another, or as defined by departmental rule. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Dependent adult: means a person eighteen years of age or older whose ability to perform the normal activities of daily living or to provide for the person's own care or protection is impaired, either temporarily or permanently. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Dependent adult abuse: means :
     (1) Any of the following as a result of the willful or negligent acts or omissions of a caretaker:
     (a) Physical injury to, or injury which is at a variance with the history given of the injury, or unreasonable confinement, unreasonable punishment, or assault of a dependent adult. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Dependent adult abuse: means :
     (1) Any of the following as a result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence or reckless acts or omissions of a caretaker, taking into account the totality of the circumstances:
     (a) A physical injury to, or injury which is at a variance with the history given of the injury, or unreasonable confinement, unreasonable punishment, or assault of a dependent adult which involves a breach of skill, care, and learning ordinarily exercised by a caretaker in similar circumstances. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Dependent child: means a person who meets the eligibility criteria established in chapter 234 or 239B and whose support is required by chapter 234, 239B, 252A, 252F, 598, or 600B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the director of human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Director: means the director of human services. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Disposition data: means information pertaining to an opinion or decision as to the occurrence of child abuse, including:
  • Division: means the Iowa title guaranty division in the authority, the director of the division, or a designee of the director. See Iowa Code 16.92
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Education loan: means a loan which is made by an institution to a student or parents of a student, or both, in amounts not in excess of the maximum amounts specified in rules adopted by the authority under chapter 17A to finance all or a portion of the cost of the student's attendance at the institution. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Education service provider: means an education management organization, charter school management organization, or other person with whom a charter school contracts for educational program implementation or comprehensive management. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Elder abuse: means any of the following:
     (1) Physical injury to, or injury which is at a variance with the history given of the injury, or unreasonable confinement, unreasonable punishment, or assault of a vulnerable elder by a person not otherwise governed by chapter 235E. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Eligible individual: means an individual eligible for medical assistance pursuant to section 249A. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Eligible institution: means a community college established under chapter 260C or an institution of higher learning governed by the state board of regents. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Eligible postsecondary institution: means an institution of higher learning under the control of the state board of regents, a community college established under chapter 260C, or an accredited private institution as defined in section 261. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Emergency shelter services: means and includes, but is not limited to, secure crisis shelters or housing for victims of dependent adult abuse. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Employee: means the person employed in a new job. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Employee: means a natural person who performs labor in this state and is employed by an employer in this state for compensation and for whom the employer withholds federal or state tax liabilities from the employee's compensation. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Employee: means a person employed in a program job. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Employer: includes any governmental entity and any labor organization. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Employer: means the person providing new jobs in the merged area served by the community college and entering into an agreement. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Employer: means a business or consortium of businesses engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, or assembling products, construction, conducting research and development, or providing services in interstate or intrastate commerce, but excludes retail services. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Enroll: means to be eligible for and covered by a health benefit plan. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Essential health benefits: means essential health benefits as defined in section 1302 of the Affordable Care Act, that include at least the general categories and the items and services covered within the categories of ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • 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.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Expenditures: means the total amounts paid from the general fund of a school district. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Exploitation: means a caretaker who knowingly obtains, uses, endeavors to obtain to use, or who misappropriates, a dependent adult's funds, assets, medications, or property with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive a dependent adult of the use, benefit, or possession of the funds, assets, medication, or property for the benefit of someone other than the dependent adult. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Facility: means a health care facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Facility: means the personnel, program, physical plant, and equipment of a licensee. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Family or household member: means a spouse, a person cohabiting with the vulnerable elder, a parent, or a person related to the vulnerable elder by consanguinity or affinity, but does not include children of the vulnerable elder who are less than eighteen years of age. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Federal poverty level: means the most recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the United States department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Financial institution: means "financial institution" as defined in 42 U. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Financial need: means the difference between the student's financial resources available, including those available from the student's parents as determined by a completed parents' confidential statement, and the student's anticipated expenses while attending an eligible institution. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Food assistance program: means the benefits provided through the United States department of agriculture program administered by the department of human services in accordance with 7 C. See Iowa Code 234.1
  • Food programs: means the food stamp and donated foods programs authorized by federal law under the United States department of agriculture. See Iowa Code 234.1
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • foreign protective order: means a protective order entered by a court of another state, Indian tribe, or United States territory that would be an order or court-approved consent agreement entered under this chapter, a temporary or permanent protective order or order to vacate the homestead under chapter 598, or an order that establishes conditions of release or is a protective order or sentencing order in a criminal prosecution arising from a domestic abuse assault if it had been entered in Iowa. See Iowa Code 236.19
  • foreign protective order: means a protective order entered by a court of another state, Indian tribe, or United States territory that would be an order or court-approved consent agreement entered under this chapter, an order that establishes conditions of release, or a protective order or sentencing order in a criminal prosecution arising from a sexual abuse if it had been entered in Iowa. See Iowa Code 236A.19
  • Founding group: means a person, group of persons, or education service provider that develops and submits an application for a charter school to the state board under this chapter. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Full-time resident student: means an individual resident of Iowa who is enrolled at an eligible institution in a program of study including at least twelve semester hours or the trimester or quarter equivalent. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing board: means the independent board of a charter school whose members are elected or selected pursuant to the charter school contract, subject to the requirements of section 256E. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • Government: means the government of the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • 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.
  • Guardian: means the same as defined in section 633. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Health benefit plan: means any policy or contract of insurance, indemnity, subscription, or membership issued by an insurer, health service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any similar corporation or organization, any public coverage, or any self-insured employee benefit plan, for the purpose of covering medical expenses. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Highly skilled job: means a job with a broadly based, high performance skill profile including advanced computation and communication skills, technology skills, and workplace behavior skills, and for which an applied technical education is required. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Household income: means household income as determined using the modified adjusted gross income methodology pursuant to section 2002 of the Affordable Care Act. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • Income: means all of the following:
  • Incremental property taxes: means the taxes as provided in sections 403. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Individual: means an individual person or a married couple who provides child foster care in a single-family home environment and which does not meet the definition of an agency in subsection 2. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Individual: means a parent, an obligor, or a putative father in a paternity or support proceeding. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Individual employed as an outreach person: means a natural person who, in the course of employment, makes regular contacts with dependent adults regarding available community resources. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Individually identified: means any report, assessment, or disposition data which names the person or persons responsible or believed responsible for the child abuse. See Iowa Code 235A.13
  • Industry: means a business engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, or assembling products, conducting research and development, or providing services in interstate commerce, but excludes retail, health, or professional services. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Innovation zone consortium: means a consortium of two or more school districts and an area education agency in which one or more of the school districts are located, that receives approval to establish an innovation zone school pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Innovation zone school: means a public school administered by a principal that is, pursuant to an innovation zone school contract entered into by an innovation zone consortium pursuant to section 256F. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • Institution: means a nonprofit educational institution located in Iowa not owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision, agency, instrumentality, district, or city of the state, which is authorized by law to provide a program of education beyond the high school level and which meets all of the following requirements:
  • Institution: means a birthing hospital. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Institution: means a school district or eligible postsecondary institution delivering the instruction in a given program as authorized by this chapter. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Institution: means a birthing hospital. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Institution: means a community college organized under this chapter. See Iowa Code 260C.56
  • Institutionalized spouse: means a married individual who has resided or is likely to reside in a hospital or a health care facility for more than twenty-nine consecutive days. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Instructional cost center: means one of the following areas of course offerings of the community colleges:
  • Insurer: means any entity, including a health service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any similar corporation or organization, or an employer offering self-insurance, that provides a health benefit plan, but does not include an entity that provides public coverage. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Intellectual disability: means a diagnosis of intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder which diagnosis shall be made only when the onset of the person's condition was during the developmental period and based on an assessment of the person's intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Internet site: means a specific location on the internet that is determined by internet protocol numbers, by a domain name, or by both, including but not limited to domain names that use the designations ". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Intimate relationship: means a significant romantic involvement between two persons that need not include sexual involvement, but does not include a casual social relationship or association in a business or professional capacity. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Iowa health and wellness plan provider: means any provider enrolled in the medical assistance program or any participating accountable care organization. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Iowa health and wellness plan provider network: means the health care delivery network approved by the department for Iowa health and wellness plan members. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Iowa Medicaid enterprise: means Iowa Medicaid enterprise as defined in section 135D. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Judicial officer: means a supreme court justice, a judge of the court of appeals, a district judge, a district associate judge, an associate juvenile judge, an associate probate judge, or a magistrate. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • 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.
  • Labor organization: means any organization of any kind, or any agency, or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • 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
  • Legal holiday: means a legal public holiday as defined in section 1C. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Lender: means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property held or owing by the museum. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: includes licenses for hunting, fishing, boating, or other recreational activity. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Licensee: means an individual or an agency licensed by the administrator under this chapter. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Licensing authority: means a county treasurer, county recorder or designated depositary, the supreme court, or an instrumentality, agency, board, commission, department, officer, organization, or any other entity of the state, which has authority within this state to suspend or revoke a license or to deny the renewal or issuance of a license authorizing an individual to register or operate a motor vehicle or to engage in a business, occupation, profession, recreation, or industry. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Loan: means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • Magistrate: means a judicial officer appointed under chapter 602, article 6, part 4. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Major renovations: means construction or facility improvements to a nursing facility in which the total amount expended exceeds seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
  • Medicaid: means the program paying all or part of the costs of care and services provided to an individual pursuant to chapter 249A and Tit. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Medical assistance: means "mandatory medical assistance" "optional medical assistance" "discretionary medical assistance" or "Medicare cost sharing" as defined in section 249A. See Iowa Code 249B.1
  • Medical assistance: means "mandatory medical assistance" "optional medical assistance" "discretionary medical assistance" or "Medicare cost sharing" as each is defined in section 249A. See Iowa Code 249F.1
  • medical assistance program: means the medical assistance program created pursuant to chapter 249A. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Medical home: means a team approach to providing health care that originates in a primary care setting; fosters a partnership among the patient, the personal provider, and other health care professionals, and where appropriate, the patient's family; utilizes the partnership to access and integrate all medical and nonmedical health-related services across all elements of the health care system and the patient's community as needed by the patient and the patient's family to achieve maximum health potential; maintains a centralized, comprehensive record of all health-related services to promote continuity of care; and has all of the following characteristics:
  • Medical support: means medical support as defined in section 252E. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Medical support: means either the provision of health care coverage or the payment of cash medical support. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Member: means an eligible individual who is enrolled in the Iowa health and wellness plan. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Merged area: means an area where two or more school systems or parts of school systems merge resources to operate a community college in the manner provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Miscellaneous income: means the receipts deposited to the general fund of the school district but not including any of the following:
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mother: means a mother of the child for whom paternity is being established. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Multidisciplinary team: means a group of individuals who possess knowledge and skills related to the diagnosis, assessment, and disposition of child abuse cases and who are professionals practicing in the disciplines of medicine, nursing, public health, substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health, social work, child development, education, law, juvenile probation, or law enforcement, or a group established pursuant to section 235B. See Iowa Code 235A.13
  • National medical support notice: means a notice as prescribed under 42 U. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Natural person: means an individual and not a corporation, government, business trust, estate, partnership, proprietorship, or other legal entity, however organized. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Near fatality: means an injury to a child that, as certified by a physician or physician assistant, placed the child in serious or critical condition. See Iowa Code 235A.13
  • Net patient revenue: means all revenue reported by a hospital on the hospital's 2008 Medicare cost report for acute patient care and services, but does not include contractual adjustments, charity care, bad debt, Medicare revenue, or other revenue derived from sources other than hospital operations including but not limited to nonoperating revenue, other operating revenue, skilled nursing facility revenue, physician revenue, and long-term care revenue. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • New job: means a job in a new or expanding industry but does not include jobs of recalled workers, or replacement jobs or other jobs that formerly existed in the industry in the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • New jobs credit from withholding: means the credit as provided in section 260E. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Nondirect care component: means the portion of the reimbursement rate under the medical assistance program attributable to administrative, environmental, property, and support care costs reported on the provider's financial and statistical report. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Nonoperating revenue: means income from activities not relating directly to the day-to-day operations of a hospital such as gains from disposal of a hospital's assets, dividends and interests from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Nonoperating revenue: means income from activities not relating directly to the day-to-day operations of a nursing facility such as gains on the disposal of a facility's assets, dividends, and interest from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Notes: means notes, warrants, loan agreements, and all other forms of evidence of indebtedness now or hereafter authorized for schools. See Iowa Code 257C.3
  • Nursing facility: means a nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • 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.
  • Obligations: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the authority, including interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued under this chapter, including refunding bonds. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Obligee: means a parent or another natural person legally entitled to receive a support payment on behalf of a child. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Obligor: means a natural person as defined in section 252G. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Obligor: means a parent or another natural person legally responsible for the support of a dependent. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Obligor: means the person legally responsible for the support of a child as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Obligor: means a person who has been ordered by a court or administrative authority to pay support. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Order: means a support order entered pursuant to chapter 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 252K, 598, 600B, or any other support chapter, or pursuant to a comparable statute of another state or foreign country, or an ex parte order entered pursuant to section 252E. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Other operating revenue: means income from nonpatient care services including but not limited to tax levy receipts, laundry services, gift shop operations, meal services to individuals other than patients, and vending machine commissions. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Other operating revenue: means income from nonpatient care services to patients and from sales to and activities for persons other than patients which may include but are not limited to such activities as providing personal laundry service for patients, providing meals to persons other than patients, gift shop sales, or vending machine commissions. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Parent: means a parent or guardian of a student at an institution. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • Part-time resident student: means an individual resident of Iowa who is enrolled at an eligible institution in a program of study including at least three semester hours or the trimester or quarter equivalent. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Participant: means an individual who is enrolled in an accelerated career education program at a community college. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Participating accountable care organization: means an accountable care organization approved by the department to participate in the Iowa health and wellness plan provider network. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Participating hospital: means a nonstate-owned hospital licensed under chapter 135B that is paid on a prospective payment system basis by Medicare and the medical assistance program for inpatient and outpatient services. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Party: means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Party: means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Party: means a putative father or a mother, as named in an action. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Paternity is at issue: means any of the following conditions:
  • Paternity test: means and includes any form of blood, tissue, or genetic testing administered to determine the biological father of a child. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Patient day: means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • Patient day: means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day. See Iowa Code 249L.2
  • payor: means and includes, but is not limited to, an obligor's employer, trustee, the state of Iowa and all governmental subdivisions and agencies and any other person from whom an obligor receives income. See Iowa Code 252D.16
  • Payor of income: includes both an employer and a person engaged in a trade or business in this state who engages a contractor for compensation. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Peace officer: means the same as defined in section 801. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Person: means person as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Person: means person as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Person: means a public or private person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other body. See Iowa Code 261A.4
  • personal property: include money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal provider: means the patient's first point of contact in the health care system with a primary care provider who identifies the patient's health-related needs and, working with a team of health care professionals and providers of medical and nonmedical health-related services, provides for and coordinates appropriate care to address the health-related needs identified. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Petitioner: includes each dependent person for whom support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter or a mother or putative father of a dependent. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Petitioner: includes each dependent person for whom support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter or a mother or putative father of a dependent. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Plaintiff: means a vulnerable elder who files a petition under this chapter and includes a substitute petitioner who files a petition on behalf of a vulnerable elder under this chapter. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • plan: means the Iowa health and wellness plan established under this chapter. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Plan administrator: means the employer or sponsor that offers the health benefit plan or the person to whom the duty of plan administrator is delegated by the employer or sponsor offering the health benefit plan, by written agreement of the parties. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Preschool program: means the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children created in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • Presence: means a location in Iowa at which a student participates in any structured activity related to a school's distance education course of instruction, with the exception of proctored examinations. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Presence: means a location in Iowa at which a student participates in any structured activity related to a school's distance education course of instruction, with the exception of proctored examinations. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Present danger of elder abuse: means a situation in which the defendant has recently threatened the vulnerable elder with initial or additional elder abuse, or the potential exists for misappropriation, misuse, or removal of the funds, benefits, property, resources, belongings, or assets of the vulnerable elder combined with reasonable grounds to believe that elder abuse is likely to occur. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Preventive care services: means care that is provided to an individual to promote health, prevent disease, or diagnose disease. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Primary care provider: includes but is not limited to any of the following licensed or certified health care professionals who provide primary care:
  • Primary care provider: means a physician who provides primary care who is a family or general practitioner, a pediatrician, an internist, an obstetrician, or a gynecologist; an advanced registered nurse practitioner; or a physician assistant. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Primary medical provider: means the personal provider trained to provide first contact and continuous and comprehensive care to a member, chosen by a member or to whom a member is assigned under the Iowa health and wellness plan. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Private trust funds: means any and all endowment funds and any and all moneys received by a department or establishment from private persons to be held in trust and expended as directed by the donor. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Pro se: means a person proceeding on the person's own behalf without legal representation. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Program: means the hospital health care access assessment program created in this chapter. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Program: means an elder group home as defined in section 231B. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • program: means the project or projects established by a community college for the creation of jobs by providing education and training of workers for new jobs for new or expanding industry in the merged area served by the community college. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Program capital costs: includes , but is not limited to, costs related to any or all of the following:
  • Program costs: means all necessary and incidental costs of providing program services. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Program costs: means all necessary and incidental costs of providing program services. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Program job: means a highly skilled job available from an employer pursuant to a program agreement. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Program job credit: means the credit as provided in section 260G. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Program job position: means a job position which is planned or available for an employee by the employer pursuant to a program agreement. See Iowa Code 260G.2
  • Program services: includes but is not limited to the following:
  • Program services: includes , but is not limited to, all of the following provided they are pursuant to a program agreement:
  • Project: means a training arrangement which is the subject of an agreement entered into between the community college and an employer to provide program services. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Project: means the acquisition by purchase, lease in accordance with section 260C. See Iowa Code 260C.56
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • Property tax adjustment: means state aid distributed to those school districts in which the property tax revenues generated under this chapter would be higher than the revenues generated under Iowa Code 257.2
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Provider: means a current or future owner or operator of a nursing facility that provides medical assistance program services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
  • Public assistance: means foster care costs paid by the department pursuant to chapter 234 or assistance provided pursuant to chapter 239B. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Public coverage: means health care benefits provided by any form of federal or state medical assistance, including but not limited to benefits provided under chapter 249A or 514I, or under comparable laws of another state, foreign country, or Indian nation or tribe. See Iowa Code 252E.1
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Putative father: means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Putative father: means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Putative father: means a person alleged to be the biological father of a child. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Qualified student: means a resident student who has established financial need and who is meeting all program requirements. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Reasonable and prudent parent standard: means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parenting decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of a child, while at the same time encouraging the emotional and developmental growth of a child, that a caregiver shall use when determining whether to allow a child in foster care under the placement, care, or supervision of the department to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, or social activities. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Registry: means the central employee registry created in section 252G. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • Rehire: means the first day for which an employee is owed compensation by the payor of income following a termination of employment lasting a minimum of six consecutive weeks. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • 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.
  • Repayment receipts: means those moneys collected by a department or establishment that supplement an appropriation made by the legislature. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Report data: means any of the following information pertaining to an assessment of an allegation of child abuse in which the department has determined the alleged child abuse meets the definition of child abuse:
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • 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.
  • Resident parent: means the parent with whom the child is residing at the time the support collection or paternity determination services provided in sections 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Respondent: includes each person against whom a proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Respondent: includes each person against whom a proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Responsible person: means a parent, relative, guardian, or another person legally liable for the support of a child or a child's caretaker. See Iowa Code 252C.1
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
  • School: includes each public school district as defined in chapter 274, area education agency as defined in chapter 273 and community college as defined in chapter 260C. See Iowa Code 257C.3
  • School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
  • School board: means a board of directors regularly elected by the registered voters of an accredited public school district. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • School board: means a board of directors regularly elected by the registered voters of a school district. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • School board: means the board of directors of a school district or a collaboration of boards of directors of school districts. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • School district: means a school corporation organized under chapter 274. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • School district approved to participate in the preschool program: means a school district that meets the school district requirements under section 256C. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • seal: shall include an impression upon the paper alone, or upon wax, a wafer affixed to the paper, or an official stamp of a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Serving on active duty during the national emergency: means any of the following individuals:
     (1) A reserve of an armed force ordered to active duty under 10 U. See Iowa Code 261.5
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sexual exploitation: includes the transmission, display, taking of electronic images of the unclothed breast, groin, buttock, anus, pubes, or genitals of a dependent adult by a caretaker for a purpose not related to treatment or diagnosis or as part of an ongoing assessment, evaluation, or investigation. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Special education: means classroom, home, hospital, institutional, or other instruction designed to meet the needs of children requiring special education as defined in this subsection; transportation and corrective and supporting services required to assist children requiring special education, as defined in this subsection, in taking advantage of, or responding to, educational programs and opportunities, as defined by rules of the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256B.2
  • Special fund: means any and all government fees and other revenue receipts earmarked to finance a governmental agency to which no general fund appropriation is made by the state. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Stands in a position of trust or confidence: means the person has any of the following relationships relative to the vulnerable elder:
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • State agency: means a board, department, commission or authority of or acting on behalf of the state having the power to enter into contracts with or without the approval of the executive council to acquire property in its own name or in the name of the state. See Iowa Code 7D.34
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256E.2
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256F.2
  • State board: means the state board for career and technical education as provided in section 258. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 256C.1
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • state division: means that division of the department of human services to which the director has assigned responsibility for income and service programs. See Iowa Code 234.1
  • State division: means the same as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 235.1
  • state division: means the division of adult, children, and family services of the department of human services. See Iowa Code 251.1
  • State funds: means any and all moneys appropriated by the legislature, or money collected by or for the state, or an agency thereof, pursuant to authority granted by any of its laws. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • state individual income tax: means the taxes computed under section 422. See Iowa Code 257.21
  • State percent of growth: means the percent of growth which is established by statute pursuant to section 257. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • State registrar: means state registrar as defined in section 144. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • step change: means a change designated in a support order specifying the amount of the child support obligation as the number of children entitled to support under the order changes. See Iowa Code 252B.20
  • Stepchild: means the same as defined in section 450. See Iowa Code 261.87
  • Student: includes an individual attending an accredited nonpublic school or the Iowa school for the deaf or the Iowa braille and sight saving school for purposes of sections 261E. See Iowa Code 261E.2
  • Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by a school. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by a school. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Subpoena or warrant: means a subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or support proceeding initiated or obtained by the unit or a child support agency as defined in section 252H. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Substitute petitioner: means a family or household member, guardian, conservator, attorney in fact, or guardian ad litem for a vulnerable elder, or other interested person who files a petition under this chapter. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supplemental state aid: means the amount by which state cost per pupil and district cost per pupil will increase from one budget year to the next as the result of the state percent of growth. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Support: means support or support payments as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Support order: means an order for support issued pursuant to chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252D, 252E, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country as registered with the clerk of the district court or certified to the child support recovery unit. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • support payments: means any amount which the court or administrative agency may require a person to pay for the benefit of a child under a temporary order or a final judgment or decree entered under chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other comparable chapter, and may include child support, maintenance, medical support as defined in chapter 252E, spousal support, and any other term used to describe these obligations. See Iowa Code 252D.16
  • support payments: means "support" or "support payments" as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Support services: includes but is not limited to community-based services including area agency on aging assistance, mental health services, fiscal management, home health services, housing-related services, counseling services, transportation services, adult day services, respite services, legal services, and advocacy services. See Iowa Code 235B.2
  • Support services: includes but is not limited to community-based services including area agency on aging assistance, mental health services, fiscal management, home health services, housing-related services, counseling services, transportation services, adult day services, respite services, legal services, and advocacy services. See Iowa Code 235E.1
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Transfer of assets: means any transfer or assignment of a legal or equitable interest in property, as defined in section 702. See Iowa Code 249F.1
  • Transferee: means the person who receives a transfer of assets. See Iowa Code 249F.1
  • Transferor: means the person who makes a transfer of assets. See Iowa Code 249F.1
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trust fund: means the hospital health care access trust fund created in section 249M. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • undertaking: means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Undue influence: means taking advantage of a person's role, relationship, or authority to improperly change or obtain control over the actions or decision making of a vulnerable elder against the vulnerable elder's best interests. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • Unencumbered balance: means the unobligated balance of an appropriation after charging thereto all unpaid liabilities for goods and services and all contracts or agreements payable from an appropriation or a special fund. See Iowa Code 8.2
  • Unexpended fund balance: means a school district's unreserved and undesignated fund balances. See Iowa Code 257.2
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Unit: means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Unit: means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252B.1
  • Unit: means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252F.1
  • Unit: means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252G.1
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Upper payment limit: means the maximum ceiling imposed by federal regulation on a participating hospital's medical assistance program reimbursement for inpatient services under 42 C. See Iowa Code 249M.2
  • Value-based reimbursement: means a payment methodology that links provider reimbursement to improved performance by health care providers by holding health care providers accountable for both the cost and quality of care provided. See Iowa Code 249N.2
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Vulnerable elder: means a person sixty years of age or older who is unable to protect himself or herself from elder abuse as a result of a mental or physical condition or because of a personal circumstance which results in an increased risk of harm to the person. See Iowa Code 235F.1
  • week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Withdrawal of a certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by the unit certifying that the certificate of noncompliance is withdrawn and that the licensing authority may proceed with issuance, reinstatement, or renewal of an individual's license. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Work-based learning: means opportunities and experiences that include but are not limited to tours, job shadowing, rotations, mentoring, entrepreneurship, service learning, internships, and apprenticeships. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • Work-based learning intermediary network: means the statewide work-based learning intermediary network established pursuant to section 256. See Iowa Code 258.6
  • Working days: means only Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, but excluding the holidays specified in section 1C. See Iowa Code 252I.1
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1