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151B.185 Office of Vocational Rehabilitation -- Divisions.
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The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is hereby created within the Education
and Workforce Development Cabinet, Department of Workforce Investment.
The office shall consist of an executive director and those administrative bodies
and employees provided or appointed pursuant to law. The office shall be
composed of the Division of Program Services and the Division of the Carl D.
Perkins Vocational Training Center. Each division shall be headed by a director
appointed by the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development
Cabinet under the provisions of KRS 12.050, and shall be composed of
organizational entities as deemed appropriate by the secretary of the
Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall have such powers and duties as
contained in KRS 151B.180 to 151B.210 and such other functions as may be
established by administrative regulation.
The office shall be the sole state agency for the purpose of developing and
approving state plans required by state or federal laws and regulations as
prerequisites to receiving federal funds for vocational rehabilitation.
The chief executive officer of the office shall be the executive director of the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. The executive director shall be appointed
by the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet under
the provisions of KRS 12.050. The executive director shall have experience in
vocational rehabilitation and supervision and shall have general supervision
and direction over all functions of the office and its employees, and shall be
responsible for carrying out the programs and policies of the office.
Except as otherwise provided, the office shall be the state agency responsible
for all rehabilitation services and for other services as deemed necessary. The
office shall be the agency authorized to expend all state and federal funds
designated for rehabilitation services. The Office of the Secretary of the
Education and Workforce Development Cabinet is authorized as the state
agency to receive all state and federal funds and gifts and bequests for the
benefit of rehabilitation services.
Employees under the jurisdiction of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation who
are members of a state retirement system as of June 30, 1990, shall remain in
their respective retirement systems.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 21, effective June 25, 2009. -Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 1, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 44, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1994 Ky.
Acts ch. 469, sec. 27, effective July 15, 1994. -- Repealed, reenacted, and
amended as KRS 151B.185 by 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 470, sec. 36, effective July 1,
1990, which prevailed over an amendment to KRS 163.120 by 1990 Ky. Acts
ch. 476, sec. 270, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 361,
sec. 15, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 316, sec. 2,
effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 121, effective
July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 83, effective June 17,
1978. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 2.
Formerly codified as KRS 163.120.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/13/90). The subsequent repeal, with
reenactment and amendment, of this section prevails over its amendment by a
prior Act of the 1990 Regular Session pursuant to KRS 446.260.
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