(a) The purpose of this part is to further the policy of the state to encourage and assist individuals with severe disabilities to achieve maximum personal independence through useful, productive, and gainful employment by assuring expanded competitive integrated employment opportunities, thereby enhancing their dignity and capacity for self-support and realizing independence and self-sufficiency.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-4-701

  • Competitive integrated employment: means employment available to individuals with severe disabilities or a customized employment available to individuals with severe disabilities, at a setting typically found in the community, at minimum wage or greater with the same benefits as nondisabled employees receive, in which eligible individuals interact with nondisabled individuals, other than nondisabled individuals who are providing services to those eligible individuals, to the same extent that nondisabled individuals in comparable positions interact with other persons. See Tennessee Code 71-4-702
  • Individuals with severe disabilities: means individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities. See Tennessee Code 71-4-702
  • 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
(b) This part applies to all governmental entities that are supported in whole or in part by the general assembly.
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