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As used in this part:
“Department” means the department of labor and workforce development;
“Dislocated worker” means an individual who:
Has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment, including an individual:
Currently eligible for unemployment insurance benefits; or
Who has exhausted entitlement to unemployment insurance benefits;
Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment as a result of any permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise, including a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that the facility will close within one hundred eighty (180) days;
Was self-employed, but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters; or
Is a displaced homemaker;
“Displaced homemaker” means an individual who has been:
Providing unpaid services to the individual's family members in the home; and
Dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income;
“Eligible business” means a business determined by the department to be eligible for Tennessee works pilot program grants;
“Eligible training expenses” means expenses determined by the department to be eligible for grants awarded through the Tennessee works pilot program; and
“Trade adjustment assistance funds” means funds distributed in accordance with the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002, compiled in title 19 of the United States Code.