Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 91 > Subchapter 2 - Evidence-Based Education Program

• 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.
• Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means an individual whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See
• Donor registry: means a database that identifies donors and complies with the provisions of section 5250t of this title. See
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Organ procurement organization: means a person designated by the Secretary of the U. See
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See
• Procurement organization: means an eye bank, an organ procurement organization, or a tissue bank. See
• Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. See