Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 225 - Tobacco Prevention, Cessation, and Control

• Agency: means the Agency of Human Services, unless the context requires otherwise. See
• 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.
• 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 Green Mountain Care Board established in this chapter. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health. See
• Department: means the Department of Health, unless the context requires otherwise. See
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• 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 section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Green Mountain Care: means the public-private universal health care program designed to provide health benefits through a simplified, uniform, single administrative system pursuant to 33 Vt. See
• Health care professional: means an individual, partnership, corporation, facility, or institution licensed or certified or otherwise authorized by Vermont law to provide professional health services. See
• Health care spending estimate: means the estimate established in accordance with section 9383 of this title. See
• Health care system: means the local, State, regional, or national system of delivering health services, including administrative costs, capital expenditures, preventive care, and wellness services. See
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Litigation Settlement Fund: means the Vermont Tobacco Litigation Settlement Fund established by 32 V. See
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Payment reform: means modifying the method of payment from a fee-for-service basis to one or more alternative methods for compensating health care professionals, health care provider bargaining groups created pursuant to section 9409 of this title, integrated delivery systems, and other health care professional arrangements, manufacturers of prescribed products, medical supply companies, and other companies providing health services or health supplies for the provision of high-quality and efficient health services, products, and supplies while measuring quality and efficiency. See
• Permit: means any permit or license issued pursuant to this title. See
• Program: means the Vermont tobacco prevention and treatment program established under this chapter. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Human Services. See
• 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: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Trust Fund: means the Tobacco Trust Fund established by this chapter. See