41-15B-3
Section 41-15B-3 Eligibility to receive allocations. The following criteria shall be met in order for any state agency or local entity to be eligible to receive allocations from the Children First Trust Fund: (1) After the first year, these state agencies shall annually conduct a needs assessment of the children of Alabama and shall develop and implement a strategic plan which addresses the special needs of children. The purpose of this plan is to alleviate duplication of services. The plan and evaluation of results of programs shall be submitted to the council by July 1. (2) Each county children's policy council shall comply with Sections 12-15-133 and 12-15-134, and shall be actively involved in the coordination of requests for grants funded by the Children First Trust Fund. (Act 98-382, p. 716, §3.)...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs. (b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally: (1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1) of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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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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41-15B-4
Section 41-15B-4 Permanent joint interim legislative oversight committee. (a) There is created the Permanent Joint Interim Legislative Oversight Committee of the Children First Trust Fund. The committee shall be composed of three members of each house, to be appointed by the presiding officer of each house. The chair and vice chair of the oversight committee shall be elected at the first meeting by the members of the oversight committee. The oversight committee shall meet as it deems necessary and shall study and oversee all facets of the Children First Trust Fund. The committee shall review each monthly report provided by the council, and may make recommendations as it deems appropriate. (b) The oversight committee shall consider recommending to the council a comprehensive plan to establish a grants program to assist parents in placing their children in accredited behavior modification programs. (c) Upon the request of the chair, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House...
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16-40-9
Section 16-40-9 Instruction for avoiding child sexual abuse. (a)(1) The Legislature recognizes that Erin Merryn was raped and molested for six and a half years by a neighbor and a family member. She began a crusade her senior year of high school in 2004 to end the silence and shame around sexual abuse. Erin's Law has been adopted in a number of states to help address the problem of child sexual abuse. (2) The intent of Erin's Law is to shatter the silence and stigma around child sexual abuse, and to educate children and empower them to recognize and to report abuse. (3) The Legislature finds that without a specific initiative like Erin's Law, schools generally fail to give young students adequate awareness and a voice in this issue. (b) The Governor's Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children created under subsection (c) shall adopt guidelines for a child sexual abuse prevention instructional program. The guidelines shall: (1) Educate children in grades pre-kindergarten...
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41-15B-2.3
Section 41-15B-2.3 Appropriations or allocations to State Board of Education. Notwithstanding Section 41-15B-2.2, or any other provision of law, beginning with the appropriation from the Children First Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Legislature may, but shall not be required to, make appropriations or allocations to the State Board of Education from the Children First Trust Fund. If there is no appropriation or allocation made to the State Board of Education, any tobacco revenue in or received by the Children First Trust Fund which is allocated for the State Board of Education by Section 41-15B-2.2(b)(2), may be appropriated or allocated by the Legislature to any other entity or fund which receives appropriations or allocations pursuant to Section 41-15B-2.2. (Act 2005-321, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 782, §3.)...
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12-15-508
Section 12-15-508 State Multiple Needs Children Fund established; use; limitations; accounting system to be maintained; provisions for yearly audit. (a) There is established in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the State Multiple Needs Children Fund which shall be administered by the agency designated by the Executive Council of the State Team. This fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for these purposes from the State General Fund , the Alabama Education Trust Fund, or the Children First Trust Fund, donations, grants, bequests, loans, or any other sources, either public or private, relating to providing services for children identified as multiple needs children. (b) The State Multiple Needs Children Fund shall be used to provide services not otherwise provided by state departments or agencies for multiple needs children. Administrative costs connected with the expenditures of state multiple needs children funds shall not exceed a percentage amount established by the...
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41-15B-7
Section 41-15B-7 Disposition of funds. (a) All tobacco revenues from the tobacco settlement received by the state previously designated for the Children First Trust Fund shall be deposited to the Children First Trust Fund within 30 calendar days of receipt of those tobacco revenues. (b) Allocations from the Children First Trust Fund are conditioned upon the receipt of tobacco revenues. (Act 2001-843, 2001 3rd Sp. Sess., p. 647, §2; Act 2002-402, p. 1012, §2; Act 2003-517, p. 1544, §1(b)(1,) 1(b)(4); Act 2004-560, p. 1202, §1(b)(1,) 1(b)(4).)...
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41-10-638
Section 41-10-638 Transfers from the special fund. (a) All monies in the special fund in excess of the monies to be retained therein as provided in Section 41-10-629 shall be immediately transferred by the authority as follows: (1) Anything in Act 98-382, now appearing in Sections 41-15B-1 to 41-15B-4, inclusive, to the contrary notwithstanding, tobacco revenues in the following amounts received in each of the following fiscal years by the State of Alabama, beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, shall be transferred from the special fund to the Children First Trust Fund to be appropriated by the Legislature, upon the recommendation of the Governor, for programs authorized by the Children First Act: Amount Fiscal Year up to $60,000,000 2000 up to $65,000,000 2001 up to $70,000,000 2002 and each fiscal year thereafter (2) An amount up to $2,000,000 shall be transferred beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter to the Alabama...
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