Tenn. Code Ann. § 52-5-108: Persons with an intellectual or developmental disability, on referral list for services - Age of caregiver - Program enrollment

(a) An eligible person with an intellectual disability who is on the referral list for services and whose older custodial parent, or custodial caregiver, attains seventy-five (75) years of age must be enrolled in employment and community first choices Group 5 or a similarly capped home- and community-based services program within six (6) months of the person's parent or caregiver attaining that age.

(b) An eligible person with a developmental disability other than an intellectual disability who is on the referral list for services and whose older custodial parent, or custodial caregiver, attains eighty (80) years of age must be enrolled in employment and community first choices Group 5 or a similarly capped home- and community-based services program within six (6) months of the person's parent or caregiver attaining that age.