KRS 210.770: Definitions for KRS 210.770 to 210.795.

As 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 t he 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 communit y 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 mod els 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;

(b) Homemaker services;

(c) Personal care services;

(d) In-home training and home management assistance;

(e) Start-up grants;

(f) Transportation;

(g) Home modifications;

(h) Adaptive and therapeutic equipment; and

(i) Facilitation by an indepen dent and trained facilitator to develop and

implement individualized life planning.