§ 205.010 Definitions for chapter
§ 205.170 Powers of secretary
§ 205.172 Required reports to Legislative Research Commission. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.172 v2 Required reports to Legislative Research Commission. (Effective July 1, 2025)
§ 205.173 Attorney General jurisdiction to enforce chapter and bring action — Conditions. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.173 v2 Attorney General jurisdiction to enforce chapter and bring action — Conditions. (Effective July 1, 2025)
§ 205.175 Confidential treatment of information and records — Persons to whom furnished
§ 205.177 Information may be shared by state and local governmental agencies — Conditions
§ 205.178 Enrollment or benefit tracking agency to receive information on recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits — Memorandum of understanding with departments providing information — Independent vendors — Multistate
§ 205.1781 Legislative findings
§ 205.1783 Transitional benefit alternative — Elderly Simplified Application Project — Online employment and training program — Administrative regulations
§ 205.179 Annual review of sites where residents receive state supplemental benefits to determine registration status of boarding home
§ 205.180 Destruction of records
§ 205.191 Definitions for KRS 205.178, 205.193, 205.200, 205.231, 205.232, 205.525, and 205.725. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.191 v2 Definitions for KRS 15.812, 205.178, 205.193, 205.200, 205.231, 205.232, and 205.525. (Effective July 1, 2025)
§ 205.193 Cabinet to establish and maintain policies and practices — Restrictions on recipient’s use of cash assistance benefits — Penalties — Duties of cabinet
§ 205.200 Eligibility for public assistance
§ 205.2001 “Public assistance under Title IV-A of the Federal Social Security Act standard of need” defined
§ 205.2003 Administrative regulations for work program for public assistance recipients
§ 205.2005 Opt-out of 21 U.S.C. sec. 862a(a)
§ 205.201 Duties of cabinet as to the aging and the minority elderly
§ 205.202 Acceptance and disposition of gifts and grants
§ 205.203 Authorization to provide in-home services to the aging — Collection of fees
§ 205.204 Cabinet to administer Older Americans Act — Regulatory authority
§ 205.210 Amount of assistance — Proration in case of deficiency — Resources defined
§ 205.211 Secretary to correct any underpayment or overpayment of public assistance benefits
§ 205.213 Technical amendment to material that has been incorporated by reference in administrative regulation governing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
§ 205.220 Payments, to whom made — Accounting — Exemption from assignment, levy or execution
§ 205.227 Action by secretary against persons legally liable for support
§ 205.231 Appeals — Hearing officers — Appeal board — Procedure
§ 205.232 Cash assistance benefits disqualification — Protective payee — Administrative regulations
§ 205.237 Public assistance claimant may have counsel — Fees
§ 205.240 Public assistance funds — Availability to secretary
§ 205.245 Supplementary payments
§ 205.290 Revolving fund — Disbursement — Balance not to lapse
§ 205.310 Liability of stepparent for support furnished child
§ 205.400 Energy Cost Assistance Program established — Eligibility requirements — Allocation of funds — Payments
§ 205.455 Definitions for KRS 205.460
§ 205.460 Essential services — Funding — Collection of fees and contributions
§ 205.470 Centralized resource and referral center for aging caregivers of individuals with an intellectual disability or other developmental disability
§ 205.510 Definitions for medical assistance law
§ 205.520 Title and purpose of KRS 205.510 to 205.630 — Recovery from third parties for services rendered
§ 205.522 Duty of Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to comply with specified sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304
§ 205.525 Application by cabinet for waiver, waiver amendment, or request for plan amendment — Cabinet to provide updates upon request
§ 205.526 Application for waiver to provide coverage to prerelease prisoners
§ 205.527 Managing of IMPACT Plus program by Medicaid managed care organization — Continuation of services for eligible children — Billing — Gaps in service and lack of access
§ 205.528 Hospital-to-Home Transition Program
§ 205.529 Synchronization of multiple prescriptions for treatment of a chronic illness
§ 205.531 Administrative hearings
§ 205.532 Definitions for KRS 205.532 to 205.536 — Contracts for Medicaid services by managed care organizations — Credentialing alliance — Procedures — Enrollment of and contracts with providers — Failure to agree on terms and conditions — Application
§ 205.533 Web site of managed care organization
§ 205.534 Toll-free telephone line — Duties relating to adverse determinations — In-person meeting — Reprocessing claims — Internal appeals — Timely decisions on authorization and preauthorization requests — Monthly reports — Penalties
§ 205.535 Medicaid enrollee not automatically assigned to managed care organization
§ 205.536 Utilization review — Prohibition against prospective or concurrent review of prescription drug for alcohol or opioid use disorder
§ 205.5371 Community engagement program
§ 205.5372 Specific authorization from General Assembly required to exercise state’s option to develop basic health program under federal law
§ 205.5373 Department’s duties when limited in ability to disenroll individuals from state medical assistance program
§ 205.5374 Limitation on designation of cabinet or Department for Medicaid Services as qualified health entity
§ 205.5375 Definitions for section — Presumptive eligibility — Determination — Requirements — Administrative regulations
§ 205.5376 Substance use disorder treatment for incarcerated individuals — Requirements
§ 205.538 Statistics report on cancer services for colorectal cancer among Medicaid recipients
§ 205.540 Advisory Council for Medical Assistance — Membership — Expenses — Meetings — Qualifications of members
§ 205.550 Subjects on which council advises
§ 205.5510 Definitions for KRS 205.5510 to 205.5520
§ 205.5512 Selection of and contract with third-party administrator as pharmacy benefit manager for Medicaid managed care organizations — Requirements for department’s contracts, procurement process, disclosure of information, and legislative committee review
§ 205.5514 Department’s duties regarding state pharmacy benefit management
§ 205.5516 Compliance of payment arrangements with state and federal laws and regulations
§ 205.5518 Required and prohibited actions by pharmacy benefit manager — Penalty for violation
§ 205.5520 Annual recommendations regarding pharmacy benefit reimbursement methodologies and dispensing fees
§ 205.557 Medicaid reimbursement for advocacy center’s child medical evaluation — Waivers — Administrative regulations
§ 205.558 Prescreening and admissions review system
§ 205.559 Requirements for Medicaid reimbursement to participating providers for telehealth consultations — Reimbursement for rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, and federally qualified health center look-alikes — Location in state not
§ 205.5591 Medicaid providers using telehealth — Duties of cabinet, Department for Medicaid Services, and managed care organizations — Administrative regulations — Policies and guidelines
§ 205.560 Scope of care to be designated by administrative regulations — Reimbursements mandated or prohibited — Payments to community mental health centers — Participation of providers in Medical Assistance Program
§ 205.5601 Cabinet’s reimbursement for qualifying ground ambulance service transports
§ 205.5602 Duties of Department for Medicaid Services regarding ground ambulance service transports — Assessment amount and administration — Need for state plan or waiver amendment — Reports
§ 205.5603 Ambulance service assessment fund — Appropriation and transfer of fund moneys — Sole purposes of fund — Effect of invalidity of KRS 205.5602
§ 205.5605 Definitions for KRS 205.5605 to 205.5607
§ 205.5606 Kentucky Independence Plus Through Consumer-Directed Services Program — Consumer participation — Responsibilities of cabinet and fiscal intermediary — Background screening — Regulations
§ 205.5607 Applicability of KRS Chapter 342
§ 205.561 Report on the dispensing of prescription medications
§ 205.5621 Definitions for KRS 205.5621 to 205.5625
§ 205.5622 Kentucky Pharmaceutical Assistance Program — Contingency for establishment — Purpose — Eligibility — Enrollment priority
§ 205.5623 Department’s powers in providing program benefits
§ 205.5624 Payment of benefits — Limitations — Qualification for coverage
§ 205.5625 Residency standards
§ 205.5631 Definitions for KRS 205.5631 to 205.5639
§ 205.5632 Prior authorization requirements — Administrative regulations
§ 205.5634 Coordination of use of utilization data — Identification of appropriate use of pharmaceuticals — Determination of need for educational intervention
§ 205.5636 Drug Management Review Advisory Board — Membership — Officers — Meetings
§ 205.5638 Duties and responsibilities of board
§ 205.5639 Effect of board recommendations — Written exceptions — Final decision — Appeal
§ 205.564 Pharmacy and Therapeutics Advisory Committee — Membership — Duties — Information posted on Web site — Recommendations — Presentations by interested parties — Appeals — Administrative regulations
§ 205.5641 Prior authorization not required for medication-assisted therapies in pilot project — No restrictions on participating pharmacies and pharmacists
§ 205.565 Cabinet to recognize unique costs of pediatric teaching hospital
§ 205.566 Electronic medical record database
§ 205.585 Review of services and treatment for sickle cell disease — Annual report — Short title
§ 205.590 Technical advisory committees
§ 205.591 “Fair market value” of applicant’s property if used to determine eligibility
§ 205.592 Eligibility of pregnant women, new mothers, and children up to age 1 to participate in Kentucky Medical Assistance Program
§ 205.593 Prohibition against health insurer’s considering individual’s eligibility for or receipt of medical assistance in enrollment or payment of benefits — Application of claims payment requirements to Medicaid services
§ 205.594 Health coverage for child under medical child support order — Duties of health insurers
§ 205.595 Health coverage for child under medical child support order — Duties of employers
§ 205.596 Prohibition against health insurer’s imposing requirements on state agency assigned rights of individual eligible for medical assistance that are different from those applicable to agent or assignee of other covered individual
§ 205.597 Health coverage through insurer of noncustodial parent of child under medical child support order
§ 205.598 Withholding of income and state tax refund of person required by court to provide cost of child’s health service — Priority of claims for child support over costs of reimbursement of child medical support
§ 205.615 Use of allowable Medicaid funding for trauma care costs
§ 205.617 Expansion of Medicaid coverage for screening and treatment of breast or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions — Short title
§ 205.618 Coverage for tobacco cessation medications and services
§ 205.619 Medicaid plan amendment to permit establishing of Kentucky Long-Term Care Partnership Insurance Program
§ 205.621 Increased reimbursement for Medicaid
§ 205.622 Billing of third party by vendor for medical services
§ 205.623 Information on claims paid for insurance policyholders and dependents — Use of data — Confidentiality of information — Prohibited fees
§ 205.624 Assignment to cabinet by recipient of rights to third-party payments — Right of recovery by cabinet
§ 205.626 Time assignment becomes enforceable — Payment to cabinet — Attorney’s fees
§ 205.628 Liability of recipient
§ 205.629 Notification of cabinet in actions seeking recovery for recipient
§ 205.630 Prohibited activity by cabinet — Injunctive relief
§ 205.631 Life settlement proceeds for long-term care services not considered as resource or asset for Medicaid eligibility — Notice of exhaustion of proceeds — Medicaid and applied income payments to begin immediately upon exhaustion of life settlement pro
§ 205.6310 v2 Cabinet to establish system to reduce unnecessary hospital emergency room utilization and costs
§ 205.6311 Substance use disorder treatment benefit — Administrative regulations — Contracts with Medicaid managed care organizations — Annual report
§ 205.6312 Prohibit charging medical recipients copayments or cost sharing
§ 205.6313 Medicaid reimbursement for primary care practitioners at community mental health centers
§ 205.6314 Review of reimbursement rates for emergency transportation providers — Promulgation of administrative regulations relating to emergency transportation providers
§ 205.6315 Requirements when private peer review organization is contracted with to conduct reviews of levels of care
§ 205.6316 Review of procedures for medical assistance reimbursement of pharmacists to reduce fraud and abuse — Dispensing fee
§ 205.6317 Department for Medicaid Services to develop strategies for reimbursing and paying persons participating in the Supports for Community Living Waiver Program — Allocation of slots — Administrative regulations — Funding
§ 205.63171 Short title for KRS 205.6317
§ 205.6318 Cabinet to establish integrated system to enhance program integrity of Medical Assistance Program
§ 205.632 Pilot project to create coverage provisions and reimbursement criteria for telemonitoring services based on evidence-based best practices provided by a qualified medical provider or community action agency
§ 205.6320 v2 Cabinet to strengthen managed care component of KenPAC Program and to establish standards for access and quality for organizations serving Medicaid recipients
§ 205.6322 Cabinet to seek to prohibit sheltering of assets in long-term-care cases
§ 205.6324 Cabinet to enhance third-party resource collection capacity
§ 205.6326 Review of Medicaid reimbursement systems — Implementation of a standardized patient assessment tool and consistent quality-of-care mandates
§ 205.6328 Quarterly reports to General Assembly regarding Medicaid program changes — Expiration provision
§ 205.6332 System for monitoring use of covered services using appropriate technology and identification card
§ 205.6333 Reimbursement for in-network suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies — Reimbursement rate — Timeframe for claim submissions
§ 205.6334 Request for necessary waivers of federal law
§ 205.6338 Implementation of pilot projects to provide health care to frail elderly Medicaid-eligible individuals
§ 205.634 Payments prohibited to out-of-state health facility providing services without required certificate of need — Nonreimbursement of out-of-state providers of residential care for children — Exception — Administrative regulations
§ 205.635 Skilled nursing services provided to Medicaid recipients by adult day health care programs
§ 205.637 Enhanced Medicaid payments to county-owned or operated hospitals — Payments to other hospitals
§ 205.638 Portion of hospital provider tax collections to fund enhancements to inpatient payments to hospitals
§ 205.639 Definitions for KRS 205.639 to 205.640
§ 205.640 Medical Assistance Revolving Trust Fund (MART) — Distribution of disproportionate share funds — Authority for administrative regulations — Duties of hospitals receiving funds from MART
§ 205.6401 Penalty for failure of Medicaid managed care organization to provide accurate paid claims listing
§ 205.6403 Administrative regulations to comply with change in federal law — Payments contingent on federal participation
§ 205.6405 Definitions for KRS 205.6405 to 205.6408
§ 205.6406 Hospital rate improvement programs — Calculation and payment of assessment on hospitals to provide state matching dollars for federal Medicaid funds — Supplemental payments to hospitals — Federal participation and approval required for implementa
§ 205.6407 Hospital Medicaid assessment fund
§ 205.6408 Uses of excess disproportionate share taxes
§ 205.642 Pervasive developmental disorders — Definition for KRS 200.654, 200.660, 347.020, and 387.510 — Waiver application — Report
§ 205.643 IMPACT Plus Program — Provider to receive copy of criteria used in audit, evaluation, or review
§ 205.645 Recognition of varying overhead costs
§ 205.646 External independent third-party review of Medicaid managed care organization’s final decision denying a health care service or a claim for reimbursement — Submission of multiple claims in a single review — Appeal — Administrative regulations —
§ 205.647 State pharmacy benefit manager’s report to Department for Medicaid Services — Requirements for Medicaid services contracts entered into or renewed on or after March 27, 2020 — Administrative regulations — Reimbursement rates between pharmacy bene
§ 205.648 Plan amendment, waiver, or alternative payment model for services of certified community health workers — Reimbursement — Services provided — Not be considered duplicative — Administrative regulations and approvals
§ 205.6481 Legislative findings
§ 205.6483 Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program — Purposes
§ 205.6485 State child health plan — Eligibility criteria — Schedule of benefits — Premium contributions — Access
§ 205.6487 Establishment of trust fund — Maintenance
§ 205.6489 Administration — Outreach — Data collection
§ 205.6495 Short title for KRS 205.6481 to 205.6495 and KRS 304.17A-340
§ 205.6497 Required provisions in plans
§ 205.690 Reports to General Assembly
§ 205.702 Educational and vocational programs for parents receiving public assistance — Reports by cabinet
§ 205.703 Educational and vocational programs eligible for supportive services — Prohibition against discontinuance of service to low income parents except under certain circumstances
§ 205.704 Preparation and submission of strategic plan to further education of low-income parents — Parties included in planning process
§ 205.705 Legislative intent regarding child support statutes
§ 205.710 Definitions for KRS 205.712 to 205.800. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.712 Department for Income Support — Duties — Cabinet to process child support payments — State disbursement unit — Cabinet’s cooperation with courts and officials — Reporting of obligors — Denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses — Data mat
§ 205.713 Standardized forms for entry of state case registry information. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.715 Debt due and owing to state by parents. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.720 Assignment — Subrogation — Distribution of child support payments — Effect of termination of Title IV-D services. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.721 Title IV-A services available to individuals not receiving public assistance benefits — Continuation of IV-D services — Fee for services — Exemption — Annual fee. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.725 Action when application received by cabinet — Exceptions — Definition. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.730 Cabinet’s duty to locate custodial and noncustodial parents — Enforcement of child support obligations — Registry of information relating to parents — Assistance from governmental agencies — Limits on availability of information. (Effective unti
§ 205.732 Employment assistance program for low-income noncustodial parents. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.735 Information to be supplied by employer. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.745 Child support lien or levy in favor of cabinet — Filing of notice — Foreclosure actions — Immobilization of vehicles of child support obligors. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.750 Payments to be made through the state agency or the agency’s designee. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.752 Penalty imposed upon payor for tender of dishonored check. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.755 Manner for receipt and distribution of payments. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.765 Judicial proceeding to secure support. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.766 Concurrent jurisdiction of Circuit and District Courts in certain child support cases. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.767 Surety to guarantee payment of overdue support. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.768 Release of information to consumer reporting agencies — Notice — Charge for information. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.7685 Credit report from consumer reporting agency requested for purpose of child support recovery. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.769 Federal and state income tax refund offsets. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.7695 Sharing of state tax information for child support collection. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.770 Child custody and visitation rights. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.772 Data match agreements between cabinet and financial institutions — Surrender of assets when parent is subject to lien — Fee — Financial institutions not liable. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.774 Wage reporting and financial institution match systems — Agreements. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.776 Disclosure of information about data match system to depositors — Penalty — Liability of financial institution — Fee. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.778 Lien against account of parent owing child support — Notice — Account activity fees — Priority of lien. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.7785 Interstate lien to enforce Kentucky child support obligation — Lien to enforce obligation credited in another state — Priority of out-of-state lien — Certification of authority. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.780 Legal action for reimbursement. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.782 Service of process by constable in county containing city of the first class. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.785 Identity of parent — Information concealment. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.790 Procedures — Actions — Remedies. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.792 Use of administrative process to determine and enforce support obligations. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.793 Administrative subpoena for information relating to child support — Financial institution may deduct funds from account — Action to enforce subpoena. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.795 Regulations. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.796 Divulging of information by employees or agents of the Commonwealth — Penalties for unauthorized disclosure. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.7965 Release of data to government agencies. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.798 Cabinet may coordinate with other agencies. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.800 Referral to local officials — Cooperative arrangements for administering. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.802 Standardized forms for entry into state case registry. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.830 Legislative intent
§ 205.835 Disclosure of financial data pertinent to applicants for or recipients of benefits — Fee — Written consent
§ 205.8451 Definitions for KRS 205.8451 to 205.8483
§ 205.8453 Responsibility for control of fraud and abuse
§ 205.8455 Recipient Utilization Review Committee — Authority
§ 205.8457 Responsibility of managed care primary physician
§ 205.8459 Emergency service
§ 205.8461 Unlawful referral practices of provider — Penalties
§ 205.8463 Fraudulent acts — Penalties
§ 205.8465 Mandatory reporting of violations — Confidentiality — Prohibition against employer discrimination or retaliation
§ 205.8467 Liability of violators — Payment of penalties to Medicaid trust fund
§ 205.8469 Enforcement proceedings by Attorney General
§ 205.8471 Lien on property of provider or recipient defrauding Medicaid program
§ 205.8473 Reliance on written governmental advice as defense
§ 205.8475 Forfeiture of provider’s license
§ 205.8477 Disclosure requirements for Medicaid providers, fiscal agents, and managed care entities — Disclosure requirements for owners and investors of health facilities and health services — When disclosure must be provided
§ 205.8479 Report of license or certificate suspension, revocation, or limitation
§ 205.8481 Prohibition against representation of provider by staff of Attorney General in private practice
§ 205.8483 Toll-free hotline for receiving reports of fraud and abuse — Report
§ 205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920
§ 205.905 Subsidy for personal care assistance
§ 205.910 Eligibility standard — Subsidy not income for federal law purposes — Supplements other programs
§ 205.915 Appeal of decision by aggrieved party
§ 205.920 Regulations
§ 205.925 Implementation of KRS 205.900 to 205.920 by cabinet
§ 205.935 Definitions for KRS 205.940
§ 205.940 Representative payee fund
§ 205.990 Penalties. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.990 v2 Penalties. (Effective July 1, 2025)
§ 205.992 Penalties for child support recovery offenses. (Effective until July 1, 2025)
§ 205.992 v2 Penalties for child support recovery offenses. (Effective July 1, 2025)
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 205 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance

  • abortion: means an act, procedure, device, or prescription administered or prescribed for a pregnant woman by any person, including the pregnant woman herself, producing premature expulsion of the fetus. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Chiropractor: means a person authorized to practice chiropractic under the laws of the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Council: means the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Health professional: means a physician, physician assistant, nurse, doctor of chiropractic, behavioral health professional, optometrist, dentist, or allied health professional who is licensed in Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Needy aged: means a person who has attained the age of sixty-five (65) and who is unable to provide for himself and who does not have otherwise provided for him a subsistence compatible with decency and health. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Needy blind: means a person who has no vision or whose vision is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential and who is unable to provide for himself and who does not have otherwise provided for him a subsistence compatible with decency and health. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Needy child: means a child who has been deprived of parental support by reasons prescribed by regulations within the scope of Title IV of the Social Security Act, its amendments, and federal regulations and who does not have otherwise provided for him a subsistence compatible with decency and health. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Needy permanently and totally disabled: means a person eighteen (18) years of age or older and who has a permanent physical or mental impairment, disease, or loss that substantially precludes him from engaging in useful occupations within his competence and who is unable to provide for himself and who does not have otherwise provided for him a subsistence compatible with decency and health. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Nurse: means a person authorized to practice professional nursing under the laws of the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Nursing home: means a facility which provides routine medical care in which physicians regularly visit patients, which provide nursing services and procedures employed in caring for the sick which require training, judgment, technical knowledge, and skills beyond that which the untrained person possesses, and which maintains complete records on patient care, and which is licensed pursuant to the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Optometrist: means a person authorized to practice optometry under the laws of the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Partnership: includes both general and limited partnerships. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Pharmacist: means a person authorized to practice pharmacy under the laws of the
    Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Physician: means a person authorized to practice medicine or osteopathy under the laws of the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Podiatrist: means a person authorized to practice podiatry under the laws of the
    Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public assistance: means money grants, assistance in kind, or services to or for the benefit of needy aged, needy blind, needy permanently and totally disabled persons, needy children, or persons with whom a needy child lives or a family containing a combination of these categories, except that the term shall not be construed to permit the granting of financial aid where the purpose of such aid is to obtain an abortion. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Public institution: means any establishment or place which is the responsibility of and administered by the state or any political subdivision thereof providing a group living arrangement in which one (1) or more individuals are cared for and
    maintained in residence. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Secretary: means the secretary for health and family services or his authorized representative. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Telehealth: means the same as in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Telehealth consultation: means a medical or health consultation, for purposes of patient diagnosis or treatment, that meets the definition of telehealth in this section. See Kentucky Statutes 205.510
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010