Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 13 > Chapter 60 > Part 2 - Genetic Testing and Procedure Privacy Act

• 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.
• 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
• Appropriation: means an allocation of money for a specific purpose. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Budget: means a plan for financial operations for a fiscal period, embodying estimates for proposed expenditures for given purposes and the means of financing the expenditures. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Budget period: means the fiscal period for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• County general fund: means the general fund used by a county. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means any functional unit within a fund which carries on a specific activity. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• DNA: means :

  (a)	deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, and chromosomes, which may be analyzed to detect heritable diseases or conditions, including the identification of carriers, predicting risk of disease, or establishing a clinical diagnosis; or

  (b)

  proteins, enzymes, or other molecules associated with a genetic process, which may be modified, replaced in part or whole, superseded, or bypassed in function by a health or medical procedure. See Utah Code 13-60-203 Employer: means the same as that term is defined in Section 34A-2-103. See Utah Code 13-60-203 Encumbrance system: means a method of budgetary control where part of an appropriation is reserved to cover a specific expenditure by charging obligations, such as purchase orders, contracts, or salary commitments to an appropriation account. See Utah Code 17-36-3 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 Estimated revenue: means any revenue estimated to be received during the budget period in any fund for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Finance officer: means : (a)  the county auditor or the person selected to provide accounting services for the county in accordance with Section 17-19a-205; or (b)  notwithstanding Subsection (13)(a), for the purposes of preparing a tentative budget in a county operating under a county executive-council form of county government, the county executive. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Fiscal period: means the annual or biennial period for recording county fiscal operations. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity comprised of a sum of money or other resources segregated for a specific purpose or objective. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Fund balance: means the excess of the assets over liabilities, reserves, and contributions, as reflected by its books of account. See Utah Code 17-36-3 General fund: is a s defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for All Local Governments prepared by the Office of the Utah State Auditor. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Genetic procedure: means any therapy, treatment, or medical procedure that is intended to: (a)  add, remove, alter, activate, change, or cause mutation in an individual's inherited DNA; or (b)  replace, supersede, or bypass a normal DNA function. See Utah Code 13-60-203 genetic test: means the testing, detection, or analysis of an identifiable individual's DNA that results in information that is derived from the presence, absence, alteration, or mutation of an inherited gene or genes, or the presence or absence of a specific DNA marker or markers. See Utah Code 13-60-203 Health care insurance: means the same as that term is defined in Section 31A-1-301. See Utah Code 13-60-203 Last completed fiscal period: means the fiscal period next preceding the current period. See Utah Code 17-36-3 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. 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. Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Private genetic information: means any information about an identifiable individual that: (i)  is derived from: (A)  the presence, absence, alteration, or mutation of an inherited gene or genes; or (B)  the presence or absence of a specific DNA marker or markers; and (ii)  has been obtained: (A)  from a genetic test or analysis of the individual's DNA; (B)  from a genetic test or analysis of the DNA of a blood relative of the individual; or (C)  from a genetic procedure. See Utah Code 13-60-203 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Retained earnings: means that part of the net earnings retained by an enterprise or internal service fund which is not segregated or reserved for any specific purpose. See Utah Code 17-36-3 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Unappropriated surplus: means that part of a fund which is not appropriated for an ensuing budget period. See Utah Code 17-36-3