Section 30:6D-12.3 - Definitions relative to self-directed support services for persons with developmental disabilities.

NJ Rev Stat § 30:6D-12.3 (2019) (N/A)

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30:6D-12.3 Definitions relative to self-directed support services for persons with developmental disabilities.

3. As used in this act:

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services.

"Department" means the Department of Human Services.

"Developmental disability" means developmental disability as defined in section 3 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-3).

"Self-directed support services" means an arrangement in which funding is made available by the department, through the Division of Developmental Disabilities or any other division in the department, to a person with a developmental disability or person who has been authorized to serve as a fiduciary of the person with a developmental disability, who is living in his own home, the home of a family member or guardian, or some other similar living environment. The purpose of the arrangement is to support the needs of the person with a developmental disability by allowing the person, or his family or guardian, or both, to determine the nature and scope of services to be provided, in lieu of the department placing the person with a developmental disability in a residential program operated by the department directly or by contracting with a residential provider of services for persons with developmental disabilities.

"Services" means services as defined in section 3 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-3).

L.2008, c.128, s.3.

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