In this subchapter:
(1) “Extended foster care” means a residential living arrangement in which a young adult voluntarily delegates to the department responsibility for the young adult’s placement and care and in which the young adult resides with a foster parent or other residential services provider that is:
(A) licensed or approved by the department or verified by a licensed or certified child-placing agency; and
(B) paid under a contract with the department.
(2) “Guardianship services” means the services provided by the Department of Aging and Disability Services under Subchapter E, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code.
(3) “Institution” means a residential facility that is operated, licensed, registered, certified, or verified by a state agency other than the department. The term includes a residential service provider under a Medicaid waiver program authorized under Section 1915(c) of the federal Social Security Act that provides services at a residence other than the young adult’s own home.
(3-a) “Trial independence” means the status assigned to a young adult under § 263.6015.
(4) “Young adult” means a person who was in the conservatorship of the department on the day before the person’s 18th birthday.