(a) The department is hereby authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations with respect to methods of administration, use of medical and other records of individuals who have been provided vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, and the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, including provisions relating to the tenure, appointment and qualification of personnel, which shall govern with respect to such matters notwithstanding any other law; provided, that such activities must conform with any applicable rules and regulations of the department of human resources.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-4-607

  • Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Maintenance: means the provision of money on behalf of a blind individual with employment barriers to cover the necessary living expenses, and health and maintenance essential to achieving the individual's vocational rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Vocational rehabilitation: means making an individual able, or increasing an individual's ability to:
    (A) Engage in a remunerative occupation. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Vocational rehabilitation services: means :
    (A) Diagnostic and related services, including transportation, incidental to the determination of whether an individual is a blind individual with employment barriers, and if so, the individual's eligibility for, and the nature and scope of other vocational rehabilitation services to be provided. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
(b) The department of human services is also authorized and directed to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations respecting:

(1) The establishment and maintenance of minimum standards governing the facilities and personnel utilized in the provision of vocational rehabilitation services for the blind; and
(2) The order to be followed in selecting those to whom vocational rehabilitation services are to be provided in situations where such services cannot be provided to all eligible blind people.
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