As used in KRS 210.770 to 210.795, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1)
2. (2)
3. (3)
4. (4)

5. (5) "Mental impairment" includes an intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities; "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; "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; "Substantial limitation of a major life activity" includes limiting such things as walking, talking, seeing, hearing, caring for oneself, or working; "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:

   1. (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;
   2. (b) Encourage the individual's integrated participation in the community with persons who are members of the general citizenry;
   3. (c) Promote the individual's rights and autonomy;
   4. (d) Enhance the individual's skills and competences in living in the community; and
   5. (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. (6) "Hart-Supported Living Program" does not include any services that support the following arrangements:

   1. (a) Segregated living models such as any housing situation which physically or socially isolates people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;
   2. (b) Segregated programs or activities which physically or socially isolate people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;
   3. (c) Congregate living models such as any housing situation which groups individuals with disabilities as an enclave within an integrated setting;
   4. (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
   5. (e) Any single living unit where more than three (3) people with disabilities live;
7. (7)

8. (8) "Hart-Supported Living Council" means a supported living council appointed by the Governor and recognized by the secretary; and "Hart-supported living services" include but are not limited to:

   1. (a) Hart-supported living community resource developers;
   2. (b) Homemaker services;
   3. (c) Personal care services;
   4. (d)
   5. (e) Start-up grants;
   6. (f) Transportation;
   7. (g) Home modifications;
   8. (h) Adaptive and therapeutic equipment; and
   9. (i) Facilitation by an independent and trained facilitator to develop and In-home training and home management assistance; implement individualized life planning.

Effective: June 24, 2015

History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 95, effective July 12, 2012; and ch. 158, sec. 41, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 261, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2012). This statute was amended by 2012 Ky. Acts chs. 146 and 158. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they have been codified together. Where a conflict exists, Acts ch. 146, which was last enacted by the General Assembly, prevails under KRS 446.250.