(a) All rehabilitation services, as defined in this part, may be provided to eligible individuals with disabilities; and in any event, the services shall include training, maintenance, placement, guidance and physical restoration services.
Maintenance: means the provision of money to cover a handicapped individual's necessary living expenses and health maintenance essential to achieving the handicapped individual's vocational rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
Physical restoration: includes : (A) Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition that is stable or slowly progressive and: (i) Constitutes a substantial barrier to employment. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Vocational rehabilitation: means making an individual able, or increasing the individual's ability, to:(A) Engage in a remunerative occupation. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
Vocational rehabilitation services: means :(A) Diagnostic and related services, including transportation, incidental to the determination of whether an individual is a handicapped individual, and if so, the individual's eligibility for, and the nature and scope of, other vocational rehabilitation services to be provided. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
(b)(1) Within the limits and under the conditions that may be specified in appropriations for rehabilitation facilities, the department may establish rehabilitation facilities.(2) Appropriations, federal grants and donations for vocational rehabilitation services, unless otherwise restricted, shall be available for all vocational rehabilitation services provided under the state plan and for the acquisition of vending stands or other equipment and initial stocks and supplies for use by individuals with severe disabilities in any type of small business, the operation of which will be improved through management and supervision by the division.(c)State appropriations and donations for vocational rehabilitation shall likewise be available for the purpose, whenever federal funds are made available to the state under any federal statute, for initiating projects for the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services or for projects for research, demonstrations, training and traineeships, and for planning for and initiating expansion of vocational rehabilitation services under the state plan.(d)(1) The acceptance of federal and other funds, and their use for vocational rehabilitation, subject to restrictions that may be imposed by the donor and that are not inconsistent with this part, is authorized.(2) Funds appropriated by the general assembly for that purpose may be used to match the federal funds and private funds.(e) The division shall not expend funds appropriated to it for the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities as defined in § 49-11-602(7)(B), but may, from division funds, defray administration and counseling and guidance expenses only; provided, that other state agencies or local governments or private sources may make their funds available to the division so as to obtain federal aid or funds to purchase rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.
