22-11C-4
Section 22-11C-4 Alabama Statewide Head and Spinal Cord Injury Registry. The State Health
Officer may establish, contingent on the availability of funding, within the Department of
Public Health the Alabama Statewide Head and Spinal Cord Injury Registry for the purpose
of providing accurate and up-to-date information about head and spinal cord injuries in Alabama
and facilitating the evaluation and improvement of head and spinal cord injuries prevention,
diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation, and referral to coordinated, rehabilitation programs administered
by other state agencies. The purpose of these referrals shall be to ensure that these programs
shall provide eligible persons the opportunity to obtain the necessary rehabilitative services
enabling them to be referred to a vocational rehabilitation program or to return to an appropriate
level of functioning in their community. The State Committee of Public Health shall adopt
rules necessary to effect the purposes of this chapter,...
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22-11C-12
of Alabama, or its political subdivisions, or any individual arising out of any acts or omissions
which occurred under the provisions of this chapter, if the state, political subdivisions,
or individual is in compliance with this chapter. (b) No person shall have any claim or cause
of action against any person, or the employer or employee of any person, who participates
in good faith in the reporting or receiving, or both, of head or spinal cord registry data
or data for head or spinal cord injury morbidity or mortality studies in accordance
with this chapter. (c) No license of a health care facility or health care provider may be
denied, suspended, or revoked for the good faith disclosure of confidential or privileged
information in the reporting of head or spinal cord injury registry data or data for
head or spinal cord injury morbidity or mortality studies in accordance with this chapter.
(d) No license of a health care facility or health care provider may be denied, suspended,
or...
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16-38A-2
Section 16-38A-2 Alabama Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board - Creation;
composition. There is created the Alabama Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory
Board to be appointed as herein provided. The following agencies and organizations shall appoint
one representative to the board: (1) The Alabama Medical Association. (2) The Alabama Head
Injury Foundation. (3) The Governor. (4) The Department of Public Health. (5) The Department
of Human Resources. (6) The Division of Special Education Services of the Department of Education.
(7) The Alabama Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. (8) The Department of Mental
Health. (9) The Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
(10) The Alabama Head Injury Task Force. (11) The Alabama Hospital Association. (12)
The Insurance Commissioner of Alabama. (13) The Epilepsy Foundation of North and Central Alabama.
(14) The Alabama Medicaid Agency. (15) The Alabama Coalition of Citizens...
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32-5A-191.2
Section 32-5A-191.2 Administration and disposition of funds in Alabama Head and Spinal Cord
Injury Trust Fund. (a) Beginning October 1, 1994, moneys in the Alabama Head and Spinal
Cord Injury Trust Fund shall be distributed to the Division of Rehabilitation Services
in the State Department of Education for the following purposes: (1) As a payer of last resort
for the costs of care provided in this state for citizens of this state who have survived
neuro-trauma with head or spinal cord injuries. Expenditures for spinal cord injury
and head injury care shall be made by the Division of Rehabilitation Services according
to criteria established by the Alabama Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory
Board. Expenditures may include but need not be limited to, post acute medical care, rehabilitation
therapies, medication, attendant care, home accessibility modification, and equipment necessary
for activities of daily living. (2) Public information, prevention education, and research...

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22-11C-8
Section 22-11C-8 Exchange of information with other registries. (a) The State Health Officer
may enter into agreements to exchange confidential information with other head and/or spinal
cord injury registries to obtain complete reports of Alabama residents diagnosed or
treated in other states and to provide information to other states regarding their residents
diagnosed or treated in Alabama. (b) The State Health Officer may furnish confidential information
to other states' head and/or spinal cord injury registries, federal head or spinal
cord injury prevention or rehabilitation agencies, or health researchers in order to
collaborate in a national head and/or spinal cord injury registry or to collaborate
in head and/or spinal cord injury prevention and rehabilitation research studies. (Act
98-611, p. 1343, §8.)...
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22-11C-11
Section 22-11C-11 Report of findings and recommendations. The State Health Officer, with input
from the advisory panel, shall prepare a report that describes findings from the Head and
Spinal Cord Injury Registry and make new recommendations for the prevention of head
and spinal cord injuries and provision of rehabilitative services for persons with head and
spinal cord injuries and transmit the report to the Legislature and make the report available
to the public. These findings shall be presented to an annual meeting of experts in the field
of head and spinal cord injury. (Act 98-611, p. 1343, §11.)...
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22-11C-6
Section 22-11C-6 Notice of available state assistance; referrals. (a) The Department of Public
Health shall establish procedures, after a report has been received for any person with a
head or spinal cord injury, to notify the individual or the most immediate available
family members of the availability of assistance from the state, the services available, and
the eligibility requirements. (b) The Department of Public Health shall refer persons who
have head or spinal cord injuries to other state agencies to assure that rehabilitative services,
if desired, are obtained by that person. (Act 98-611, p. 1343, §6.)...
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29-2-105
Section 29-2-105 Coordination council - Composition; meetings; duties. (a) The committee shall
convene a council composed of the chair of the committee or his or her designee and the commissioner
or the commissioner's designee of each department of state government that administers services
to children, youth, and their families, including, but not limited to, the Department of Education,
the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Public
Health, the Medicaid Agency, the Department of Youth Services, the Department of Rehabilitation
Services, one member from the Alabama Association of County Directors of Human Resources appointed
by that organization, one member from the Alabama Residential Child Care Association appointed
by that organization, two members from the Alabama Foster Parent Association appointed by
that organization, one member from the Juvenile Court Judges Association appointed by that
organization, one guardian ad litem...
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22-11C-10
Section 22-11C-10 Advisory Panel on Head and Spinal Cord Injury. The State Health Officer
may establish and coordinate an Advisory Panel on Head and Spinal Cord Injury which
shall provide governmental and non-governmental input regarding the Head and Spinal Cord Injury
Registry. The membership of the panel may include, but is not limited to, representatives
from appropriate state departments and agencies, persons with head and spinal cord injuries
or their family members, experts on head and spinal cord injuries, providers of head and spinal
cord injury care, and representatives of state affiliates of national head and/or spinal
cord injury organizations. (Act 98-611, p. 1343, §10.)...
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16-38A-1
Section 16-38A-1 Creation of fund. There is created in the State Treasury the Alabama Head
and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund. (Acts 1992, No. 92-586, p. 1207, §1; Act 2016-259,
§1.)...
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