Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 40 > Chapter 5-D > Subchapter B > Part II - Federally Qualified Health Center Preservation Act

• Appointing authority: means any official, officer, board, commission, council, or person having the power to make appointments to positions in the municipal fire and police services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Appointment: means the designation of a person, by due authority, to become an employee in a position, and his induction into employment in the position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• 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
• Board: means the municipal fire and police civil service board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Classification plan: means all the classes of positions established for the classified service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Classified service: means every appointive office and position of trust or employment in the municipal government which has as its primary duty one of the functions specifically set forth to be included in the classified service by the provisions of this Part; and excludes all elective and appointive offices and positions of trust or employment which have a primary duty specifically set forth to be included in the unclassified service by the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health or its successor in the role of designated state agency under Title XIX of the Social Security Act or any successor Act including but not limited to block grants for medical care of the poor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1183.3
• Eligible: means a person whose name is on a list. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Employee: means a person legally occupying a position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• 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.
• FQHC: means a facility which is engaged in furnishing primary health services to outpatients by physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners, including but not limited to health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology and such services and supplies incident thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1183.3
• 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.
• list: means a reinstatement employment list, a promotional employment list, a competitive employment list, and a reemployment list. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Net uncompensated costs: means the costs related to patient care incurred during a provider's fiscal year of furnishing outpatient services, net of the cost of treating Medicare patients, Medicaid payments for inpatient and outpatient services, excluding disproportionate share payments, costs associated with patients who have insurance for services provided, and payments received from uninsured patients. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1183.3
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• permanent employee: means an employee who has been appointed to a position in the classified service in accordance with this Part after completing his working test period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Position: means any office and employment in the municipal fire and police services, the duties of which call for services to be rendered by one person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Promotion: means a change of an employee in the classified service from a position of one class to a position of a higher class which generally affords increased responsibilities and pay. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Reemployment list: means an employment list for the entrance or lowest ranking class in the classified service, or in any group of classes as may have been grouped in the classification plan, containing names of regular employees who have been laid off under the "lay off" provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473
• Seniority: means the following:

              (a) "Departmental seniority" means the total employment computed for an employee beginning with the last date on which he was regularly and permanently appointed and has worked continuously to and including the date of computation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:2473

• 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.
• State plan for medical assistance: means the plan promulgated by the department in accordance with its role as a designated state agency under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, or its successor plan including but not limited to block grants for medical care to the poor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1183.3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• 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.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.