Section 210.770 - Definitions for KRS 210.770 to 210.795As used in KRS 210.770 to 210.795, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Mental impairment" includes an intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities;(2) "Person with a disability" means someone with a physical or mental impairment and includes individuals who have a record or history of an impairment, or are regarded as having a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one (1) or more major life activities;(3) "Physical impairment" means any physiological disorder or corrective, cosmetic disfigurement, or an anatomical loss affecting one (1) or more of the following body systems: neurological, musculo-skeletal, special sense organs, respiratory including speech organs, cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genito-urinary, hemic and lymphatic, skin, and endocrine;(4) "Substantial limitation of a major life activity" includes limiting such things as walking, talking, seeing, hearing, caring for oneself, or working;(5) "Hart-Supported Living Program" means grants which provide a broad category of highly flexible, individualized services which, when combined with natural unpaid or other eligible paid supports, provide the necessary assistance to do the following: (a) Provide the support necessary to enable a person who is disabled to live in a home of the person's choice which is typical of those living arrangements in which persons without disabilities reside;(b) Encourage the individual's integrated participation in the community with persons who are members of the general citizenry;(c) Promote the individual's rights and autonomy;(d) Enhance the individual's skills and competences in living in the community; and(e) Enable the individual's acceptance in the community by promoting home ownership or leasing arrangements in the name of the individual or the individual's family or guardian;(6) "Hart-Supported Living Program" does not include any services that support the following arrangements: (a) Segregated living models such as any housing situation which physically or socially isolates people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;(b) Segregated programs or activities which physically or socially isolate people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;(c) Congregate living models such as any housing situation which groups individuals with disabilities as an enclave within an integrated setting;(d) Any model where the individual, as an adult, does not have maximum control of the home environment commensurate with the individual's disabilities; and(e) Any single living unit where more than three (3) people with disabilities live;(7) "Hart-Supported Living Council" means a supported living council appointed by the Governor and recognized by the secretary; and(8) "Hart-supported living services" include but are not limited to: (a) Hart-supported living community resource developers;(c) Personal care services;(d) In-home training and home management assistance;(h) Adaptive and therapeutic equipment; and(i) Facilitation by an independent and trained facilitator to develop and implement individualized life planning.Amended by 2015 Ky. Acts ch. HB-402,§ 1, eff. 6/22/2015.Amended by 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 158,§ 41, eff. 7/11/2012.Amended by 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146,§ 95, eff. 7/11/2012. Amended 2006, Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1, effective 7/12/2006. -- Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 261, sec. 1, effective 7/14/1992.