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12-15-317
Section 12-15-317 Who may file petition. The Department of Human Resources, any public or private
licensed child-placing agency, parent, child, or any interested person may file a petition
to terminate the parental rights of a parent or parents of a child. (1) Mandatory filing of
petition by the Department of Human Resources. The Department of Human Resources shall be
required to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent or parents of a child,
or if the petition has been filed by another party, shall seek to be joined as a party to
the petition, and, concurrently, to identify, recruit, process, and approve a qualified family
for adoption, in the following circumstances: a. In the case of a child who has been in foster
care in the custody of the Department of Human Resources for 12 of the most recent 22 months.
b. If a child has been abandoned. c. If the parent has committed murder of another child of
that parent. d. If the parent has committed manslaughter of another...
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30-3D-310
Section 30-3D-310 Duties of the Department of Human Resources. (a) The Department of Human
Resources is the state information agency under this chapter. (b) The state information agency
shall: (1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this
state which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this
state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state; (2) maintain
a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from
other states; (3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this state in which
the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property
is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received
from another state or a foreign country; and (4) obtain information concerning the location
of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state not exempt...
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26-14-6
Section 26-14-6 Temporary protective custody. A police officer, a law enforcement official,
or a designated employee of the State or County Department of Human Resources may take a child
into protective custody, or any person in charge of a hospital or similar institution or any
physician treating a child may keep that child in his or her custody, without the consent
of the parent or guardian, whether or not additional medical treatment is required, if the
circumstances or conditions of the child are such that continuing in his or her place of residence
or in the care and custody of the parent, guardian, custodian, or other person responsible
for the child's care presents an imminent danger to that child's life or health. However,
such official shall immediately notify the court having jurisdiction over juveniles of such
actions in taking the child into protective custody; provided, that such custody shall not
exceed 72 hours and that a court of competent jurisdiction and the...
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38-13-2
Section 38-13-2 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age and older. (2) ADULT CARE FACILITY.
A person or entity holding a Department of Human Resources license or approval or certification
to provide care, including foster care, for adults. (3) APPLICANT. A person or entity who
submits an application for license as a child care or adult care facility to the Department
of Human Resources or a child placing agency, or an application for employment or for a volunteer
position to a Department of Human Resources licensed child care or adult care facility. With
regard to child care and adult care facilities in a home setting, the term includes an adult
household member whose residence is in the home. The term also includes an individual who
submits an application for a volunteer position or for employment with the Department of Human
Resources in a position in which the person has unsupervised...
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38-13-4
Section 38-13-4 Mandatory criminal history check notice; suitability determinations; checks
on subsequent activity. (a) Every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the
Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency required to obtain a criminal history
background information check pursuant to this chapter shall obtain, prior to or upon the date
of employment, or issuance of a license or approval or renewal thereof, and maintain in the
agency or personnel file, a request with written consent for the criminal history background
information check and a statement signed by the applicant, volunteer, or employee indicating
whether he or she has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, fully disclosing all convictions.
The statement shall include a notice and questionnaire the same as or similar to the following:
(1) MANDATORY CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK NOTICE: Alabama law requires that a criminal history
background information check be conducted on all persons who hold a...
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31-8-15
Section 31-8-15 Restoration of pensioner dropped from roll through error, etc. Whenever it
is made to appear to the county department of human resources that the name of a pensioner
has through any error or omission or inadvertence been dropped from or left off the list of
pensioners, it shall certify such fact and the length of time omitted or dropped and the amount
due such pensioner, to the State Department of Human Resources, and if it is satisfactorily
shown that such pensioner is justly entitled to be restored, the State Department of Human
Resources shall order and the Comptroller shall issue his warrant for the amount shown to
be due, the warrant to be delivered to the pensioner as other warrants are delivered. (Code
1907, §2037; Acts 1919, No. 409, p. 535; Code 1923, §2965; Code 1940, T. 60, §25.)...
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31-8-31
Section 31-8-31 Maintenance of permanent state pension roll; verification of applications,
etc. The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources, by correspondence with the
Department of Defense in Washington, or investigation of the Confederate records on file in
the state or elsewhere, shall obtain all necessary information to make the permanent pension
roll complete, authentic and permanent as contemplated by this chapter, and the entering of
names of pensioners on the permanent pension roll and the cancellation of names struck from
the roll by reason of death or other legal cause, shall be under the supervision and direction
of the commissioner, who shall, when any application is made for a pension, submit to the
Department of Defense the facts of service set forth in such application for verification
thereof, and the result of such inquiry shall be submitted by him, with the application of
the pensioner, to the State Board of Human Resources. No application for a...
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22-6-9
Section 22-6-9 Medicaid identification card; issuance and use; confidentiality of recipient.
(a) The Department of Human Resources shall issue to all eligible recipients a special color
picture medicaid identification card, which shall be separate from and entirely distinct from
the valid color picture driver license or non-driver identification card. The Medicaid identification
card shall be issued only on presentation of proper identification and evidence of medicaid
eligibility. The identification card shall be used as identification to providers of medical
service, and the identification card shall contain a suitable medium which when used with
a suitable data processing system, to be developed by the Department of Human Resources with
the technical assistance and advice of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, can
provide real-time verification of Medicaid eligibility by the provider. (b) The Department
of Human Resources shall make provision for adequate protection of...
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38-10-7.1
Section 38-10-7.1 Scope of representation of district attorney or appointed attorney in support
enforcement action. Any district attorney or attorney approved or appointed by the Attorney
General initiating legal proceedings at the request of the Department of Human Resources to
establish or enforce child support, spousal support, medical support, and/or any other support
services pursuant to the provisions of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and the laws
of this state shall represent the State of Alabama, Department of Human Resources, exclusively
in said proceedings. No attorney-client relationship shall exist between the IV-D attorney
and any applicant or recipient of the agency's support enforcement services, without regard
to the style of the case in which legal proceedings are initiated. Said attorney representing
the state in an IV-D case is only authorized to appear and prosecute and/or defend issues
of support and cannot in an IV-D case address or provide representation...
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38-14-1
Section 38-14-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources. (2) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL or FAMILY
MEMBER. A person whose household income is equal to or less than 80 percent of the median
household income for the state or less than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines,
whichever is greater. (3) EMERGENCY. Payments for necessary medical expenses of the account
owner or family member, expenses to avoid the eviction of the account owner from the account
owner's primary residence, and for necessary living expenses following a loss of income (4)
FIDUCIARY ORGANIZATION. Any nonprofit, fund-raising organization that is exempt from taxation
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended; any certified community
development financial institution; any credit union chartered under federal or state law;
or any Indian tribe as defined in Section 4(12) of the Native American...
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