§348-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter:
"Department" means the department of human services.
"Director" means the director of human services.
"Eligible handicapped individual", when used with respect to diagnostic and related services, training, guidance, and placement, means any handicapped individual whose vocational rehabilitation is determined feasible by the department of human services, and when used with respect to other vocational rehabilitation services, means an individual meeting the foregoing requirements who is also found by the department to require financial assistance with respect thereto, after full consideration of the individual's financial resources, or in the instance of minors the financial resources of the parents, and eligibility for any similar benefit by way of pension, compensation, insurance, or of any other available assistance.
"Establishment of a workshop or rehabilitation facility" means:
"Handicapped individual" means an individual who is under a physical or mental disability that is stable or slowly progressive and constitutes a substantial handicap to employment, but that is of such a nature that appropriate vocational rehabilitation services may reasonably be expected to render the individual able to engage in a remunerative occupation.
"Health maintenance" means payments for medical care for acute conditions occurring in the course of vocational rehabilitation that are not expected to last thirty days.
"Maintenance" means payments, not exceeding the cost of subsistence, provided an eligible handicapped individual necessary to derive the benefit of other vocational rehabilitation services being provided to achieve the individual's vocational rehabilitation objective.
"Nonprofit", when used with respect to a rehabilitation facility or a workshop, means a rehabilitation facility and a workshop, respectively, owned and operated by a corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and the income of which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.
"Physical restoration" includes:
"Prosthetic appliance" means any appliance designed to support or take the place of a part of the body, or to increase the acuity of a sensory organ.
"Rehabilitation facility" means a facility operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals:
"Remunerative occupation" includes employment as an employee or self-employed, practice of a profession, homemaking, or farm and family work for which payment is in kind rather than cash, sheltered employment and home industry or other homebound work of a remunerative nature.
"Vocational rehabilitation" means making an individual able, or increasing the individual's ability to engage in, and placement in, a remunerative occupation through providing the individual needed vocational rehabilitation services.
"Vocational rehabilitation services" means:
"Workshop" means a place where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on and which is operated for the primary purpose of providing remunerative employment to severely handicapped individuals who cannot be readily absorbed in the competitive labor market. [L 1955, c 231, pt of §2; RL 1955, §42-31; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §18; am L 1965, c 175, §§3, 40; HRS §348-2; am L 1970, c 105, §5; am L 1979, c 188, §1(2) and c 228, §3; am L 1980, c 116, §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1987, c 339, §4; am L 2016, c 55, §4]