38-12-34
Section 38-12-34 Subsidies - Authorized; eligibility. (a) Subject to rules adopted to implement this article, the department may provide subsidies for an eligible child placed in kinship guardianship by a court, or by a federally recognized Native American Indian tribe, if the child would not be placed in a kinship guardianship without the assistance of the program. (b) A child is an eligible child for a kinship guardianship subsidy if the department determines the following: (1) The child has been removed from the custody of his or her parent or parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that continuation in the custody of the parent or parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian would be contrary to the welfare of the child. (2) The department is responsible for the placement and care of the child. (3) Being returned home or being adopted are not appropriate permanent options for the child. (4) Permanent placement with a kinship...
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26-10B-8
Section 26-10B-8 Department to provide coverage and benefits not provided by residence state; procedure for reimbursement. The State Department of Human Resources shall provide coverage and benefits for a child who is in another state and who is covered by an adoption assistance agreement made by the State Department of Human Resources for coverage or benefits, if any, not provided by the residence state. To this end, the adoptive parents acting for the child must obtain prior approval from the State Department of Human Resources and may submit evidence of payment for services or benefit amounts not payable in the residence state and shall be reimbursed therefor. However, there shall be no reimbursement for services or benefit amounts covered under any insurance or other third party medical contract or arrangement held by the child or the adoptive parents. The State Department of Human Resources shall make regulations implementing this section. Among other things, such regulations...
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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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31-8-18
Section 31-8-18 Proceedings as to persons placed on pension roll through fraud, etc. When it shall be reported to the State Department of Human Resources or it shall come to their knowledge that any person whose name is on the pension roll is not entitled to a pension or through fraud or misrepresentation has been placed on the pension roll, and has been receiving a pension from the state, the State Department of Human Resources shall make inquiry into such charges and if they are satisfied as to the probable correctness thereof, reference of the same shall be made to the county department of human resources of the county where the pensioner resides, which shall make full investigation and report the result thereof to the State Department of Human Resources. If the charges are established, the name of such pensioner shall be stricken from the pension roll and the State Department of Human Resources shall ascertain and make demand upon the pensioner to immediately refund the same. The...
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38-7-18
Section 38-7-18 Mandatory state subsidized child day-care services program. (a) There is hereby provided a mandatory state subsidized child day-care services program within the Department of Human Resources for a minimum average of 6,500 eligible children at not less than the current Department of Human Resources payment rates for a payment-to-provider cost of not less than $8,600,000.00, annually, based on fiscal year ending September 30, 1987. (b) There is hereby provided, in addition to any and all other appropriations to the Department of Human Resources, a conditional appropriation of $2,400,000.00 from the Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1987, to the Department of Human Resources, to provide child day-care services for an additional 1,800 eligible children. The appropriation herein provided is conditional upon the condition of the Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund as ascertained by the Governor, and shall be released only upon...
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38-10-2
Section 38-10-2 Definitions. (a) As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources of the State of Alabama, including the state and county departments of human resources. (2) CHILD. A child as described or defined by the Social Security Act and amendments thereto and by state law. (3) SUPPORT. Support of a minor child and spousal support when such spousal support is incidental to child support as required by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. (4) SUPPORT PROGRAMS. Locating absent parents, establishing paternity, establishing or modifying support orders, enforcing support orders, collecting support and related matters as described or defined by the Social Security Act and amendments thereto and by state law. (5) ADC, AFDC, AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN, and AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN. Such terms shall have the same meaning and shall refer to the...
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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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26-14-7.2
Section 26-14-7.2 Child denied medical treatment due to parents' religious beliefs. (a) When an investigation of child abuse or neglect by the Department of Human Resources determines that a parent or legal guardian legitimately practicing his or her religious beliefs has not provided specific medical treatment for a child, the parent or legal guardian shall not be considered a negligent parent or guardian for that reason alone. This exception shall not preclude a court from ordering that medical services be provided to the child when the child's health requires it. (b) The department may, in any case, pursue any legal remedies, including the initiation of legal proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, as may be necessary to provide medical care or treatment for a child when the care or treatment is necessary to prevent or remedy serious harm to the child, or to prevent the withholding of medically indicated treatments from infants with disabilities and with life-threatening...
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30-3D-704
Section 30-3D-704 Initiation by the Department of Human Resources of support proceeding under Convention. (a) In a support proceeding under this article, the Department of Human Resources shall: (1) transmit and receive applications; and (2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. (b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention: (1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; (2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state; (3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child; (4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under Section 30-3D-708(b)(2), (4), or (9); (5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and (6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign...
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38-1-1
Section 38-1-1 Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section: (1) DEPARTMENT or STATE DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Human Resources. (2) BOARD or STATE BOARD. The State Board of Human Resources. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources. (4) COUNTY DEPARTMENT. The department of human resources in each of the 67 counties. (5) COUNTY BOARD. The county board of human resources. (6) COUNTY DIRECTOR. The director of each county department of human resources. (7) BLIND ASSISTANCE. Money payments with respect to needy blind persons. (8) OLD AGE PENSIONS. Money payments with respect to a needy person who has attained the age of 65 years and who has complied with the requirements of this title. Whenever the term "old age assistance" is used in the laws of this state, such term shall mean "old age pensions." (9) DEPENDENT CHILD. Any needy child coming within the definition of "dependent...
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