Ky. Rev. Stat. § 205.900

Current through 2024 Ky. Acts ch.225

Section 205.900 - Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920

As used in KRS 205.905 to 205.920:

(1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(2) "Evaluation team" means at least three (3) individuals employed as such by a qualified agency or organization.

(3) "Personal care assistance services" means services which are required by an adult with a severe physical disability to achieve greater physical independence and which include, but are not limited to:

(a) Routine bodily functions, such as bowel or bladder care;

(b) Dressing;

(c) Housecleaning and laundry;

(d) Preparation and consumption of food;

(e) Moving in and out of bed;

(f) Routine bathing;

(g) Ambulation; and

(h) Any other similar activity of daily living.

(4) "Qualified agency or organization" means an agency or organization whose purpose is to provide services to severely physically disabled adults to enable them to live as independently as possible and a majority of whose governing board are consumers of these services. If no qualified agency or organization exists, an agency or organization may become a qualified provider when consumers of personal care assistance services are a majority of its advisory council.

(5) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(6) "Severely physically disabled adult" means a person eighteen (18) years of age or older with permanent or temporary, recurring functional loss of two (2) or more limbs.

KRS 205.900

Effective:6/20/2005
Amended 2005, Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 288, effective6/20/2005. -- Amended 2000, Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 25, effective 7/14/2000. -- Amended 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 235, effective 7/15/1998. -- Amended 1996, Ky. Acts ch. 336, sec. 7, effective 7/15/1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 229, sec. 1, effective 7/15/1994; ch. 405, sec. 61, effective 7/15/1994; and ch. 416, sec. 15, effective 7/15/1994. -- Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 1, effective 7/13/1984.