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
Section 22-11C-12 Liability under chapter. (a) No person shall have any claim or cause of action
against the State 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...
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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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