KRS 199.882: Definitions for KRS 199.881 to 199.888.

As used in KRS 199.881 to 199.888:

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

(2) "Child-care provider" means a child -care provider that is rated pursuant to the

quality-based graduated early care and education program rating system set forth in

KRS 199.8943;

(3) "Contribution" means a direct payment to a child -care provider made either directly

by an employer or through a third party on behalf of the employer to subsidize an

employee's eligible child-care costs;

(4) "Eligible child-care costs" means costs to be incurred by an individual for services

rendered by an eligible child-care provider;

(5) "Employee" means an individual who works in Kentucky and is employed by an

employer;

(6) "Employer" means a nonprofit or for -profit entity with at least one (1) employee

who works in Kentucky in each of twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the

current or preceding calendar year;

(7) "Fund" means the fund administered by the cabinet as described in KRS 199.885;

(8) "Program" means the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership;

(9) "Small business" means a business with fewer than fifty (50) employees who are

individually contracted to work more than thirty-five (35) hours per week;

(10) "State match" means the money paid directly to the child -care provider by the

cabinet or a third-party administrator from the fund described in KRS 199.885;

(11) "State median household income" means the most recent estimate available of real

median household income for the state, as determined by the United States Census

Bureau, and adjusted for family size; and

(12) "Third-party administrator" means a private entity contracted by the cabinet to

administer the program.