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26-10B-2
Section 26-10B-2 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the State Department
of Human Resources to enter into interstate agreements with agencies of other states for the
protection of children for whom adoption assistance is being provided by the State Department
of Human Resources, and to provide procedures for interstate adoption assistance payments
for children, including medical payments. (Acts 1991, No. 91-662, p. 1267, §2.)...
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care to participate in activities that are age or developmentally appropriate for the child
based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard, provided the activities are consistent
with provisions of any existing court order, individualized service plan, or promulgated policy
of the department that provides guidance to caregivers concerning the reasonable and prudent
parent standard. The guidance shall include factors for the caregiver to consider prior to
allowing a child to participate in age or developmentally appropriate normal childhood activities.
(2) A caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury,
death, or loss to person or property that results from a caregiver's decisions using a reasonable
and prudent parent standard. This subsection shall not be construed to remove or limit any
existing liability protection provided by law. (Act 2008-277, p. 441, §18; Act 2010-712,
p. 1744, §13; Act 2016-129, p. 290, §1; Act 2018-273, §1.)...
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41-15B-2.2
5. Provision of other forensic services for children when requested by the council. b. The
Department of Forensic Sciences shall prepare an annual accounting of the distribution of
monies received and the effectiveness of programs implemented pursuant to this chapter and
shall file the accounting with the council before July 1. Sufficient safeguards shall be implemented
to ensure that the new monies increase and not supplant or decrease existing state support.
(12) One-half of one percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Rehabilitation
Services for distribution to one or more of the following: a. Early intervention services
for children from birth through age three and services for children who have traumatic brain
injury. b. Child death review teams pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 16 of Title 26.
The Department of Rehabilitation Services shall work in cooperation with the Department of
Public Health to administer this paragraph. (Act 99-390, p. 628, §3.)...
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is a relative of the child and has been providing care and support for the child while the
child has been residing in the home of the caregiver for at least the last six consecutive
months while in the legal custody of the Department of Human Resources or a designated official
for a child-placing agency or a successor guardian. (4) CHILD ABUSE. Harm or the risk of harm
to the emotional health, physical health, or welfare of a child, which can occur through nonaccidental
physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, or attempted sexual abuse or sexual exploitation
or attempted sexual exploitation. (5) CHILD-PLACING AGENCY. The same as the term is defined
in subdivision (3) of Section 38-7-2. (6) ELIGIBLE CHILD. In addition to the definition of
child in subdivision (3) of Section 12-15-102, an individual under 18 years of age who has
been residing with the caregiver for at least the last six consecutive months while in the
legal custody of the Department of Human Resources. (7) FORENSIC...
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26-10B-7
Section 26-10B-7 Medical assistance; applicability. (a) A child with special needs residing
in this state who is the subject of an adoption assistance agreement with another state shall
be entitled to receive a medical assistance identification from this state upon the filing
in the Medicaid office of a certified copy of the adoption assistance agreement obtained from
the adoption assistance state. The adoptive parents shall be required at least annually to
show that the agreement is still in force or has been renewed. (b) The terms of the compact
entered into by the department and addressed in this statute will apply to children who are
the subject of a federal adoption assistance agreement. At the department's option, and in
concurrence with the Alabama Medicaid Agency, the state may elect to provide the benefits
described in this statute to children who are the subject of a state adoption assistance agreement,
in which case the Department of Human Resources will pay the state's...
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38-12-31
Section 38-12-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
There exists in this state a number of children who cannot reside with their parents, legal
guardians, or legal custodians because of such parents', legal guardians', or custodians'
incapacity or inability to perform the regular and expected functions of care and support
of the children and family care and who thereby come to the attention of juvenile court and
into the care and custody of the Department of Human Resources. (2) An increasing number of
relatives, including grandparents, find themselves wanting to provide care to related foster
children on a long-term basis to prevent the children from remaining in foster care with unrelated
caregivers yet these relatives are either unable or unwilling to seek termination of the legal
relationships between the parent and the child, particularly when it is the caregiver's own
child or sibling who is the parent. (3) It is in the public interest to...
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to have been perpetrated by a member of the foster parent's household, the process for disposition
of these allegations, and any review process for reports of indicated child abuse and neglect
upon receipt of the allegations. A written notification of any report in which a finding is
not indicated on the county level shall be provided to a foster parent within five days of
the findings. (21) The right to copies of all information relative to their family and services
contained in the personal foster home record. (22) The right to mediation procedures
that may be developed and adopted by the department and the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parent
Association Board. The foster parent may request mediation in accordance with any mediation
policy adopted by the department and the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parent Association Board
without threat of reprisal. (23) The right to appeal the closing of a foster family home by
the department in accordance with any appeal procedure adopted...
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38-13-2
Place of abode, domicile, or dwelling with intention to remain permanently and continuously
or for an indefinite or uncertain length of time. (30) SEX CRIME. Includes any sex offense
listed in Section 15-20A-5. (31) SUITABILITY CRITERIA. a. Convictions for any of the following
crimes shall make an individual unsuitable for employment, volunteer work, approval, or licensure:
1. A violent offense as defined in Section 12-25-32. 2. A sex crime. 3. A crime that involves
the physical or mental injury or maltreatment of a child, the elderly, or an individual
with disabilities. 4. A crime committed against a child. 5. A crime involving the sale or
distribution of a controlled substance. 6. A crime or offense committed in another state or
under federal law which would constitute any of the above crimes in this state. b. Conviction
for any crime listed in the Adoption and Safe Families Act, 42 U.S.C. § 671(a)(20) shall
disqualify a person from being approved or continuing to be approved...
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caring for, receiving, or placing minor children and to revoke such license for cause. (14)
Establish and maintain homes or other agencies for the care of dependent or neglected minor
children or contract with any approved agency or institution for the care of such children,
and, also, receive and care for dependent or neglected minor children committed to its care,
make a careful physical examination and, if possible, a mental examination of every such child,
investigate in detail the personal and family history of the child and its environment,
and place such children in family homes or in approved suitable institutions operating in
accordance with the provisions of this title and supervise such children however placed. (15)
Require reports from courts and institutions, public and private, to the extent and in the
form and manner as required by law. (16) Solicit, receive, and hold gifts, devises, and bequests
of money, real estate, and other things of value to be used in the...
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31-9-40
the exchange of medical, fire, police, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications
personnel, and equipment and supplies. Article VIII - Compensation. Each party shall provide
for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces
of that state and representatives of deceased members of the forces in case members sustain
injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and
on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
Article IX - Reimbursement. Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this
compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving the aid for any loss or damage to
or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in
answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with such requests. Any
aiding party state may assume in whole or in part loss, damage, expense, or other...
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