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205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920.

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Page 1 of 1 205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920. As used in KRS 205.905 to 205.920: <br>(1) &quot;Cabinet&quot; means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. <br>(2) &quot;Evaluation team&quot; means at least three (3) individuals employed as such by a qualified agency or organization. (3) &quot;Personal care assistance services&quot; means services which are required by an adult with a severe physical disability to achieve greater physical independence and <br>which include, but are not limited to: <br>(a) Routine bodily functions, such as bowel or bladder care; <br>(b) Dressing; <br>(c) Housecleaning and laundry; <br>(d) Preparation and consumption of food; <br>(e) Moving in and out of bed; <br>(f) Routine bathing; <br>(g) Ambulation; and <br>(h) Any other similar activity of daily living. (4) &quot;Qualified agency or organization&quot; means an agency or organization whose purpose is to provide services to severely physically disabled adults to enable them to live as <br>independently as possible and a majority of whose governing board are consumers <br>of these services. If no qualified agency or organization exists, an agency or <br>organization may become a qualified provider when consumers of personal care <br>assistance services are a majority of its advisory council. (5) &quot;Secretary&quot; means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. <br>(6) &quot;Severely physically disabled adult&quot; means a person eighteen (18) years of age or older with permanent or temporary, recurring functional loss of two (2) or more <br>limbs. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 288, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 25, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 426, sec. 235, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 336, sec. 7, <br>effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 229, sec. 1, effective July 15, <br>1994; ch. 405, sec. 61, effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 416, sec. 15, effective July <br>15, 1994. -- Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/94). This section was amended by 1994 Ky. Acts chs. 229, 405, and 416. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they have been <br>codified together. These three Acts conflict as to subsection (4) of this section, and <br>Acts ch. 416, which was the last of the three Acts enacted by the General Assembly, <br>prevails under KRS 446.250.