As used in the Volunteer Service Credit Bank Program Act:

1. "Recipient" means a person eligible to receive services whether as a full participant or beneficiary;

2. "Full participant" means a person who is registered by a sponsoring organization to provide services and who receives service credits;

3. "Beneficiary" means a person who acts solely as a recipient and who is made eligible through the transfer of service credits from a donor or sponsor;

4. "Volunteer" means a person who is registered by a sponsoring organization to perform designated tasks for full participants and beneficiaries;

5. "Donor" means a volunteer registered with a sponsoring organization whose earned service credits will be transferred to a recipient or beneficiary;

6. "Sponsor" means an organization or agency which provides recruitment, referral, instructional facilities and support for the Program;

7. "Service credit" means the unit of exchange upon which the Program operates;

8. "Eligible tasks" means those designated activities which, when performed by a volunteer for a recipient, will result in the earning and the use of service credits;

9. "Matching process" means the administrative steps taken to bring an appropriate volunteer into contact with a recipient who has requested services;

10. "Umbrella Agency" means the Department of Human Services, Aging Services Division which will coordinate the statewide Volunteer Service Credit Bank Program, providing policy and procedures, technical assistance and computerization of records;

11. "Volunteer coordinator" means a person responsible for coordinating a sponsor's program activities;

12. "Respite care" means the temporary relief provided to a caregiver who has twenty-four-hour responsibility for a homebound person living either with the caregiver or separately; and

13. "Volunteer service credit bank" means the Program designed by the Division to provide service credits to qualified volunteers who provide in-home services.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 348, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.