As used in KRS § 210.770 to KRS § 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;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 210.770

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 210.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(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 the 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 community 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 models 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 independent and trained facilitator to develop and 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.