79-32,299. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Competitive integrated employment" has the meaning as provided in the workforce innovation and opportunity act, 29 U.S.C. § 3101 et seq., as defined in 29 U.S.C. § 3102, 34 C.F.R. § 361.5 and 29 U.S.C. § 705.

(b) "Community service provider" means an association or organization licensed by the Kansas department for aging and disability services whose purpose is to provide support and services, relating to the ability to live and to work in the community, to persons who, without such support and services, would be unable or would have significant difficulty maintaining employment or living in the community. "Community service provider" also includes other governmental agencies that support or that elect to support eligible individuals with job placement and job preservation supports including, but not limited to, school districts, community mental health centers and vocational rehabilitation contractors.

(c) "Earned income" means compensation paid to a Kansas employee for competitive integrated employment that is equal or greater than the minimum wage and is performed in a competitive integrated setting.

(d) "Eligible individual" means an individual, including a high school student, who is a Kansas resident, is employed by an employer in a competitive integrated setting, has a developmental disability that has been documented as required by the secretary for aging and disability services and who has agreed to provide the secretary for aging and disability services, or the secretary's designee, information required by the secretary pursuant to the Kansas targeted employment act, or to permit the secretary of revenue to provide such information to the secretary for aging and disability services.

(e) "Developmental disability" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 39-1803, and amendments thereto.

(f) "Targeted employment business" means those employers employing eligible individuals in competitive integrated employment in a competitive integrated setting and who are authorized to do business in Kansas. In order to qualify as a "targeted employment business," the employer must pay earned income to an eligible individual in a calendar year. "Targeted employment business" does not include a community service provider.

History: L. 2022, ch. 70, § 2; July 1.