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
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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16-13-231
of his or her contract reduced as a result of this article. b. The Foundation Program allowance
for fringe benefits shall be determined by multiplying a uniform percentage times the amount
of teachers' salaries allowed in paragraph a. above or by multiplying a fixed rate depending
on the type of fringe benefit. The fringe benefits allowances shall include amounts for the
employer's contribution for teachers' retirement, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare,
unemployment compensation, personal leave, and sick leave. The fringe benefits allowance
may include allowances for other fringe benefits as may be approved by the State Legislature.
The State Legislature shall seek the input and advice of appropriate agencies and individuals
in setting allowances. The Teachers' Retirement System and the Public Education Employees'
Health Insurance Board shall recommend to the Legislature, on or before the first legislative
day of each regular session of the Legislature, the rate for the...
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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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