26-16-2
Section 26-16-2 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them: (1) CHILD. A person under 18 years of age. (2) CHILD ABUSE. Harm or threatened harm to a child's health or welfare by a person responsible for the child's health or welfare, which harm occurs or is threatened through nonaccidental physical or mental injury; sexual abuse, which includes a violation of any provision of Article 4, Chapter 6, Title 13A. (3) CULTURAL COMPETENCY. The ability of an individual or organization to understand and act respectfully toward, in a cultural text, the beliefs, interpersonal styles, attitudes, and behaviors of persons and families of various cultures, including persons and families of various cultures who participate in services from the individual or organization and persons of various cultures who provide services for the individual or organization. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention....
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30-6-6
Section 30-6-6 Establishment and funding of facilities. (a) In order to be certified, each domestic violence center shall do all of the following: (1) Provide a facility that shall serve as a center to receive and house persons who are victims of domestic violence. For the purpose of this chapter, minor children and other dependents of a victim, when the dependents are partly or wholly dependent on the victim for support or services, may be sheltered with the victim in a domestic violence center. (2) Provide minimum services which shall include, but not be limited to, information and referral services, counseling and case management services, temporary emergency shelter for more than 24 hours for adult victims and their accompanying children, a 24-hour hotline, training for law enforcement personnel, assessment and appropriate referral of resident children, outreach services as defined by standards for counties without a physical emergency shelter facility, and educational services for...
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16-22A-7
Section 16-22A-7 Responsibilities of individuals to provide information. (a) An applicant for certification, applicant for public employment, or public current employee under review with the State Department of Education or local employing board, who has or will have unsupervised access to a child or children in an educational setting, shall, upon request, submit the following items to the State Department of Education: (1) Two functional acceptable fingerprint cards, bearing the fingerprints of the individual, properly executed by a criminal justice agency or other individual properly trained in fingerprinting techniques. (2) Written consent authorizing the release of any criminal history background information to the State Department of Education. (3) Acknowledgment that the applicant for certification, applicant for public employment, or public current employee under review received notice that the State Superintendent of Education will provide a suitability determination, based...
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16-22A-5
Section 16-22A-5 Agencies required to conduct criminal history background information checks. (a) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking positions with, and on all current employees under review employed by any local employing board, and any State Department of Education personnel as determined by the State Superintendent of Education, who have unsupervised access to and provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in an educational setting. (b) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking positions with, and on all current employees and current employees under review employed by any nonpublic school, who have unsupervised access to or who provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in an educational setting. (c) No institution listed in subsection (a) or subsection (b) shall hire an individual who may have unsupervised access to a...
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16-1-48
Section 16-1-48 Anaphylaxis preparedness program. (a) The State Department of Education shall develop an anaphylaxis preparedness program to be adopted by each local board of education and implemented in each K-12 public school commencing with the 2015-2016 scholastic year. The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy shall provide guidance, direction, and advice to the State Department of Education in developing and administering the anaphylaxis preparedness program. (b) The anaphylaxis preparedness program shall incorporate the following three levels of prevention initiated by licensed public school nurses as a part of the health services program: (1) Level I, primary prevention: Education programs that address food allergies and anaphylaxis through both classroom and individual instruction for staff and students. (2) Level II, secondary prevention: Identification and management of chronic illness. (3) Level III, tertiary prevention: The development of a planned response to...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by the state. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education receive less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason the Foundation Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary, by a hold harmless allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance calculation is the 1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each local board of education was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average daily membership from 1993-94. Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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16-22A-3
Section 16-22A-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter only, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) APPLICANT. A certified or noncertified individual who submits an application for employment to a local employing board or any nonpublic school, to act in any capacity in which the individual will have unsupervised access to children in an educational environment. (2) APPLICANT FOR CERTIFICATION. An individual who submits an application for certification issued by the State Superintendent of Education. (3) AUTHORIZED EMPLOYER. Any educational entity authorized to obtain criminal history background information, including the State Department of Education, local employing boards, and nonpublic schools which are responsible for hiring employees or contracting with private employers to provide personnel who have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting. (4) CERTIFIED APPLICANT FOR EMPLOYMENT. A...
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16-1-16.1
Section 16-1-16.1 Alabama Council on Family and Children. (a) The Legislature finds that there is at present a need in Alabama to coordinate, at the state and local level, the efforts of existing providers of services supporting early childhood development and family involvement in education. (b) There is hereby established the Alabama Council on Family and Children to be composed of the Governor, who shall be chairperson; the State Superintendent of Education; the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the State Health Officer; the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; the Chairman of the Children's Trust Fund; and the Director of the Department of Youth Services, or their designated representatives, and one additional member from each congressional district to be appointed by the Governor. Said council shall exist for the purpose of coordinating existing services, at the state and local level, supporting early childhood development and...
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16-22-13.7
Section 16-22-13.7 Fiscal year 2016-2017 adjustments. (a) PAY INCREASES, FY 2016-2017. The State Budget Officer shall allocate to the State Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Board of Youth Services School District, the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Board of Trustees of the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science and for disbursement to the employees thereof funds based on the criteria established in this section. It is not the intent of this section to make appropriations, but the appropriations required by this section shall be made in the annual Education Trust Fund budget act for the designated fiscal year. (1) CERTIFICATED PERSONNEL EARNING LESS THAN $75,000 (K-12). For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2016, and each year thereafter, each certificated employee at all city and county school systems and the teachers at the Department of Youth Services School District earning less than...
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16-22-13.8
Section 16-22-13.8 Fiscal year 2018-2019 adjustments. (a) PAY INCREASES, FY 2018-2019. The State Budget Officer shall allocate to the State Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Board of Youth Services School District, the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Board of Trustees of the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science and for disbursement to the employees thereof funds based on the criteria established in this section. It is not the intent of this section to make appropriations, but the appropriations required by this section shall be made in the annual Education Trust Fund budget act for the designated fiscal year. (1) Certificated Personnel (K-12). For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2018, and each year thereafter, each certificated employee at all city and county school systems and the teachers at the Department of Youth Services School District shall receive a two and one-half percent salary...
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