AN ACT relating to health services.

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AN ACT relating to health services. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
Section 1. KRS 205.010 is amended to read as follows: 3
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: 4
(1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; 5
(2) "Secretary" means the secretary for health and family services or his or her 6
authorized representative; 7
(3) "Public assistance" means money grants, assistance in kind, or services to or for the 8
benefit of needy aged, needy blind, needy permanently and totally disabled persons, 9
needy children, or persons with whom a needy child lives or a family containing a 10
combination of these categories, except that the term shall not be construed to 11
permit the granting of financial aid where the purpose of such aid is to obtain an 12
abortion. For purposes of this section and KRS 205.560, "abortion" means an act, 13
procedure, device, or prescription administered or prescribed for a pregnant woman 14
by any person, including the pregnant woman herself, producing premature 15
expulsion of the fetus. Abortion does not include an induced premature birth 16
intended to produce a live viable child; 17
(4) "Needy child" means a child who has been deprived of parental support by reasons 18
prescribed by regulations within the scope of Title IV of the Social Security Act, its 19
amendments, and federal regulations and who does not have otherwise provided for 20
him or her a subsistence compatible with decency and health; 21
(5) "Parent," in addition to biological or adoptive parent, shall include stepparent; 22
(6) "Needy aged" means a person who has attained the age of sixty -five (65) and who 23
is unable to provide for h imself or herself and who does not have otherwise 24
provided for him or her a subsistence compatible with decency and health; 25
(7) "Needy blind" means a person who has no vision or whose vision is so defective as 26
to prevent the performance of ordinary activit ies for which eyesight is essential and 27
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who is unable to provide for himself or herself and who does not have otherwise 1
provided for him or her a subsistence compatible with decency and health; 2
(8) "Person with whom a needy child lives" means the individua l prescribed by 3
regulation, with whom such child is living in a place of residence maintained by 4
such individual by himself or herself or together with one (1) or more other 5
persons; 6
(9) "Needy permanently and totally disabled" means a person eighteen (18) years of 7
age or older and who has a permanent physical or mental impairment, disease, or 8
loss that substantially precludes him or her from engaging in useful occupations 9
within his or her competence and who is unable to provide for himself or herself 10
and who does not have otherwise provided for him or her a subsistence compatible 11
with decency and health; 12
(10) "Private institution" means any establishment or place other than a public institution 13
operated or maintained by any individual, association, corpora tion, or other 14
organization which provides a group living arrangement for four (4) or more 15
individuals, who are cared for and maintained in residence for compensation or 16
otherwise; 17
(11) "Public institution" means any establishment or place which is the res ponsibility of 18
and administered by the state or any political subdivision thereof providing a group 19
living arrangement in which one (1) or more individuals are cared for and 20
maintained in residence; 21
(12) "Public medical institution" means any public instit ution the primary purpose of 22
which is to furnish hospital care and medical treatment; 23
(13) "Person determined to be potentially responsible" means any person who: 24
(a) Is not aged, blind, disabled, incapacitated, or needed in the home: 25
1. Because of the illness or incapacity of a member of the family; or 26
2. Because of children in the home under the age of six (6); or 27
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(b) Volunteers for such determination; 1
(14) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to deprive a woman of all appropriate 2
medical care necessary to prevent her physical death; 3
(15) "Adult day-care center" means any adult care facility which provides part-time care, 4
day or night, but less than twenty -four (24) hours, to at least four (4) adults not 5
related to the operator of the adult care facility by blood, marriage, or adoption. 6