2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 46 Public welfare and assistance :: RS 46:2116.1 Definitions

§2116.1.  Definitions

As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1)  "Department" means the Department of Social Services.

(2)  "Evaluation team" means the individuals who determine the eligibility of persons with significant disabilities for state personal assistance services pursuant to this Chapter and shall be designated by the director of Louisiana Rehabilitation Services.

(3)  "State personal assistance services" means services which are required by a person with significant disabilities between eighteen and sixty years of age to achieve greater physical independence and which include but are not limited to services related to:

(a)  Routine bodily functions, such as bowel or bladder care.

(b)  Dressing.

(c)  Preparation and consumption of food.

(d)  Housecleaning and laundry.

(e)  Transfers.

(f)  Routine bathing.

(g)  Ambulation.

(h)  Any other similar activity of daily living.

(4)  "Secretary" means the secretary of the Department of Social Services.

(5)  "Person with significant disabilities" means a person with loss of sensory or motor functions interfering with activities of daily living to the extent that the person requires assistance with nonmedical personal care needs, domestic or cleaning needs, dressing and undressing, moving into and out of bed, ambulation, related services including but not limited to meal preparation, laundry, and grocery shopping, and other similar activities of daily living.

Acts 1987, No. 781, §1; Acts 1990, No. 653, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 2006, No. 617, §1.