Louisiana § RS 46:2116.1 - Definitions
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§ RS 46:2116.1. 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 Louisiana Department of Health.
(2) "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.
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.
(4) "State personal assistance services" means goods and services which are required by a person with significant disabilities age eighteen or older to increase a person's independence or substitute for a person's dependence on human assistance.
Acts 1987, No. 781, §1; Acts 1990, No. 653, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 2006, No. 617, §1; Acts 2010, No. 939, §8, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2014, No. 493, §1, eff. June 5, 2014; Acts 2018, No. 206, §7.
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