As used in KRS § 199.881 to KRS § 199.888:
(1) “Cabinet” means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 199.882


(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 either directly by an employer or through a third party vendor 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 from the fund described in KRS § 199.885; and
(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.
Effective:April 8, 2022
History: Created 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 2, effective April 8, 2022.