2014 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XI EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (160-186)
Chapter 178 Special Schools and Instruction and Special Districts
Section 178.661 (Repealed L. 2005 S.B. 539 § A)

178.661. As used in sections 178.661 to 178.673, the following terms mean:

(1) "After-tax income", the sum of all income from all sources to an individual including, but not limited to, salary, wages, tips, interest, dividends, annuities, pensions, and disability payments, less the sum of all federal, state, and local taxes on such income;

(2) "Client", a physically disabled person determined by the division to be eligible to receive personal care assistance services;

(3) "Counselor", an employee of the division responsible for determining eligibility for personal care assistance services and for developing and implementing a personal care assistance services plan;

(4) "Division", the division of vocational rehabilitation of the department of elementary and secondary education;

(5) "Employment", a minimum of sixteen hours per week for which an individual receives remuneration;

(6) "Live independently", to reside and perform routine tasks in a noninstitutional or unsupervised residential setting;

(7) "Participant-directed", hiring, training, supervising, and directing of the personal care attendant by the physically disabled person;

(8) "Personal care assistance services", those services required by a physically disabled person to enable him to perform those routine tasks necessary to enter and to maintain employment or to live independently;

(9) "Personal care attendant", a person who performs personal care assistance tasks for a physically disabled person;

(10) "Physically disabled", loss of, or loss of use of, all or part of the neurological, muscular, or skeletal functions of the body to the extent that a person requires the assistance of another person to accomplish routine tasks;

(11) "Routine tasks":

(a) Bowel and bladder elimination;

(b) Dressing and undressing;

(c) Moving into and out of bed;

(d) Preparation and consumption of food and drink;

(e) Bathing and grooming;

(f) Use of prostheses, aids, equipment, and other similar devices; or

(g) Ambulation and other functions of daily living;

(12) "Sleeping-hours attendant", a person who provides personal care assistance services to a physically disabled person during a daily eight-hour period when the physically disabled person normally sleeps;

(13) "Vendor", any person, firm or corporation certified by the division as eligible to provide evaluation and fiscal conduit services necessary for delivery of personal care assistance services to physically disabled persons.