In this chapter:
- (1) "Adult day-care facility" means a facility that provides services under an adult day-care program on a daily or regular basis but not overnight to four or more elderly persons or persons with disabilities who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner of the facility.
- (2) "Adult day-care program" means a structured, comprehensive program that is designed to meet the needs of adults with functional impairments through an individual plan of care by providing health, social, and related support services in a protective setting.
- (3) "Department" means the Department of Aging and Disability Services.
- (4) "Elderly person" means a person 65 years of age or older.
- (4-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
- (5) "Person with a disability" means a person whose functioning is sufficiently impaired to require frequent medical attention, counseling, physical therapy, therapeutic or corrective equipment, or another person's attendance and supervision.
- (6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, or association.
Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 1008, ch. 235, art. 4, Sec. 3(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1983.
Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 264, Sec. 27, eff. Aug. 26, 1985;
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 434, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.365, eff. April 2, 2015.