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AL Code § 38-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-5 - Allocation of Funds.

Section 38-2-5Allocation of funds. The state department, subject to the approval of the state board, shall allocate such federal and state funds for public assistance, administration and services as are available, in a manner that assures equitable treatment of needy individuals in similar circumstances throughout the state. The allocation of these funds shall be based on the relative welfare needs in the several counties. In determining the relative welfare needs of the several counties consideration shall be given to the number of persons eligible to receive public assistance, the financial needs of those eligible persons, and the cost of administration and services. All these factors shall be determined in accordance with uniform standards set by the state department, subject to the approval of the state board, which standards shall in no case contravene the Social Security Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. The method of determining the needs in the several counties shall be uniform throughout the state. Funds allocated shall be expended in the manner prescribed by the state department, subject to the approval of the state board. (Acts 1951, No. 703, p. 1211, §5.)
AL Code § 38-2-6.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-6.1 - Office of State Parent Locator for the Location of Absent Parents Established; Duties; Assistance of Other Agencies, etc.; Use of Information Obtained.

Section 38-2-6.1Office of State Parent Locator for the Location of Absent Parents established; duties; assistance of other agencies, etc.; use of information obtained. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ABSENT PARENT. The parent of a minor child who owes a financial ligation for the support of the minor child or a putative parent against whom a complaint has been filed. (2) OFFICE. The state parent locator in the Department of Human Resources for the location of absent parents, hereinafter created. (b) The Office of State Parent Locator for the Location of Absent Parents is hereby established, and shall perform the following duties: (1) Assist any governmental agency or department in locating an absent parent. (2) Coordinate any activity on a state level in a search for an absent parent. (3) Obtain and disseminate, as hereinafter provided, any information which directly relates to the identity or location of an absent parent. (4) Develop guidelines for coordinating activities of any governmental department, board, commission, bureau, or agency in providing information necessary for the location of absent parents, and otherwise implementing the provisions of this section. (c) Upon request of the office, any governmental department, board, commission, bureau, or agency in this state shall provide any information which shall assist in implementing the provisions of this section. (d) The information which is obtained by the office shall only be available to a governmental department, board, commission, bureau, agency, or political subdivision of any state for the purposes of locating an absent parent for enforcing their liability of support. (Acts 1980, No. 80-727, p. 1469.)
AL Code § 38-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-8 - County Departments of Human Resources.

Section 38-2-8County departments of human resources. (a) There is hereby created in each county a county department of human resources which shall consist of the county director of human resources and such other officers and employees as the county board and state department shall deem necessary for the efficient performance of the welfare services of the county. The county director, subject to the approval of the county board and the provisions of the merit system, shall appoint such staff as may be necessary to administer the welfare activities within the county. Upon request of the local board, the State Personnel Department shall establish a county register of eligibles who are residents of the county in which the vacancy exists. If no appointment is made from the local register or there is no local register then appointment shall be made from the statewide register. Any person employed in county departments shall be covered under the provisions of the State Merit System. (b) It shall be the duty of the county director to meet regularly with the county board to formulate general policies, rules and regulations, which policies, rules and regulations must be consistent with the policies, rules and regulations of the state department. All administrative and executive duties and responsibilities of the county department shall be performed by the county director and must be in accordance with the rules and regulations of the state department, subject to the approval of the state board. These duties and responsibilities shall include relief to persons in need of assistance; the performance of family welfare services; the care of children who are dependent, neglected, under insufficient guardianship or otherwise handicapped, and such other child-care activities as shall be directed to it by the State Department of Human Resources; and the investigation of applications for admissions to and discharges from county institutions providing care and treatment of indigents. It shall be the duty of the county departments of human resources to furnish to the county board and the state department such reports concerning the activities of the county department and concerning the status of the welfare functions within its jurisdiction as the state department shall require. If appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the county department of human resources shall, through its director and his assistants hereinafter provided for, perform under the supervision of such court, the functions of a probation officer of the court having jurisdiction of children who are dependent, neglected, under insufficient guardianship or otherwise handicapped. (Acts 1951, No. 703, p. 1211, §8; Acts 1955, No. 341, p. 763, §4.)
AL Code § 38-2-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-9 - Appropriations by Counties and Municipalities; Expenditures to Be Approved by State Department.

Section 38-2-9Appropriations by counties and municipalities; expenditures to be approved by state department. The county commission in any county shall have the power and is hereby authorized to appropriate out of the public funds of the county such sum or sums of money, as it may deem wise to be expended by the county department for the relief of children under 18 years of age. Disbursements shall be made upon itemized statements approved by the county director. This shall not be interpreted so as to limit the power of the judge of the juvenile court to make orders for the care of children adjudged dependent, neglected or delinquent. The county commission and the incorporated municipalities within the county may make joint appropriations for office space, the maintenance thereof and supplies. The governing body in any county or any municipality shall have the power and authority to make other and further provision for the care of the poor and needy of the county or municipality. The disbursement of such funds as are made available for expenditure by the county departments must be approved by the State Department of Human Resources. (Acts 1951, No. 703, p. 1211, §10.)
AL Code § 38-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-10 - Authority of State Department With Respect to Granting of Public Assistance.

Section 38-2-10Authority of state department with respect to granting of public assistance. The state department is authorized and it shall be its duty to develop standards of assistance for the administration of the various public assistance programs in the state, to administer these programs through county departments of human resources and to provide such forms, records, reports and rules of procedure as may be necessary in order to obtain uniform practices with respect to public assistance throughout the state. The state department shall make such reports and furnish such information as shall be required by the social security administration in the administration of the public assistance program. The state department shall have the power to review all applications for public assistance received by the county departments, to review all disallowances of awards, amounts of awards or modifications of awards made by the county departments and to make such decision as to the granting of assistance and the amount of assistance and terms thereof as is justified by the facts, and as is in conformity with the assistance laws and policies in effect. The decision by the state department shall be complied with. (Acts 1951, No. 703, p. 1211, §19.)
AL Code § 38-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-11 - Photographic Reproductions of Books, Records, Papers or Other Documents of State Department.

Section 38-2-11Photographic reproductions of books, records, papers or other documents of state department. (a) Commissioner authorized to make reproductions and destroy originals. The Commissioner of Human Resources of the State of Alabama is authorized to make or to have made microfilm copies, photostatic copies or other similar photographic reproductions of all books, records, papers or other documents required to be maintained or kept by the Department of Human Resources or any agency, division or employee thereof. The Commissioner of Human Resources is authorized to destroy or cause to be disposed of any books, records, papers or other documents which have been microfilmed, photostated or otherwise photographed. Such microfilms, photostats or other photographs shall be retained and kept in lieu of such books, records, papers or documents required to be kept or maintained. (b) Effect of reproductions; certification; admission in evidence. Such microfilm copies, photostatic copies or other similar photographic reproductions of such above-named documents shall for all purposes be deemed to be and have the force and effect of such documents themselves. A photostatic copy, photographic reproduction or other similar photographed typewritten copies or other copies of such original microfilm copy, photostatic copy or other similar photographic reproduction of such documents shall be duly certified to by the officer having custody of such original microfilm copy, photostatic copy or other similar photographic reproduction in the Department of Human Resources, and must be received as evidence in all courts in the same manner and to the same extent as would be the duly certified copy of such documents themselves. (c) Legislative intent. It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent to permit the commissioner to dispose of any books, records, papers or any other documents required by law to be kept or maintained by the Department of Human Resources in the event that photographic reproductions of such books, records, papers or other documents are made or caused to be made by such commissioner, and to give such photographic reproduction the same force and effect as the book, record, paper or other document which has been so photographed and disposed of. (Acts 1950, 5th Ex. Sess., No. 57, p. 121, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 38-2-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-12 - Authority of Commissioner to Destroy Certain Records, Etc.

Section 38-2-12Authority of commissioner to destroy certain records, etc. (a) The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources shall have the authority to destroy or cause to be destroyed, in his discretion: (1) RECORDS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES. - All records of the Alabama Relief Administration, the Alabama Transient Bureau and Surplus Commodity Distribution presently in the custody and under the control of the State Department of Human Resources. (2) OBSOLETE COUNTY CASE RECORD MATERIAL. - Obsolete case record material in the custody of county departments, subject to the following conditions: a. Case record material concerning old age pensions, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, aid to dependent children and temporary aid shall be preserved for a period of at least five years from and after the date of the last contact with the county department by the subject of such material. b. All fiscal audits for the period in which the cases covered by such case record material were receiving assistance or service shall have been completed; provided however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the commissioner from exercising the authority to destroy case record material which has been photographically reproduced in accordance with Section 38-2-11. (3) CANCELLED COUNTY CHECKS. - All cancelled checks issued by and filed in county departments from the inception of the public welfare program in 1935 to October 1, 1951; provided, that records showing the payments evidenced by such checks must be preserved in either the state department or the county department. (4) CERTAIN FILES. - Statements contained in case record files made by recipients and their relatives as required by Act No. 694 of the 1951 Legislature of Alabama. (5) RECORDS RELATING TO SURPLUS COMMODITIES. - Case record material concerning the distribution of surplus commodities received from the United States Department of Agriculture and related records and reports concerning the handling and distribution of such surplus commodities; provided that such case record material and records and reports shall be preserved for a period of at least three years from and after the close of the state fiscal year to which they pertain. (b) In effecting the destruction of records permitted by this section, the commissioner shall establish reasonable rules and regulations insuring that the confidentiality of records shall be preserved during the process of destruction. (Acts 1951, No. 51, p. 265; Acts 1961, No. 91, p. 105, §§2-6; Acts 1979, No. 79-710, p. 1263.)
AL Code § 38-2-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources.|Section 38-2-13 - Bonds of Officers of State Department of Human Resources.

Section 38-2-13Bonds of officers of State Department of Human Resources. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources and other public welfare officers shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in amounts to be fixed by the State Board of Human Resources, for the faithful performance of their duties. (Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190.)
AL Code § 38-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-1 - Creation; Advisory Board of Directors.

Section 38-3-1Creation; advisory board of directors. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2021-484 IN THE 2021 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2021. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) There is hereby created the Department of Senior Services of the State of Alabama, which shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioner of the Department of Senior Services. (b) There is created an advisory board of directors that shall consist of 17 members and shall advise the commissioner in the administration of the department. The advisory board shall be composed of two members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate; two members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House; the Secretary of the State Department of Labor or his or her designee, the State Health Officer or his or her designee, and the Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources or his or her designee, as ex officio members; and 10 members to be appointed by the Governor for terms concurrent with the term of the Governor. Of the members appointed by the Governor, one shall be a representative of business, one shall be a representative of labor, one shall be a representative of the medical profession, three shall be representatives of senior citizen organizations, one shall be a representative of an organization serving individuals with disabilities, and the remaining three shall be responsible residents of the state. Upon reappointment, the membership of the board shall be inclusive and reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state. The name of any designee to the advisory board of directors authorized by this chapter shall be submitted in writing to the Commissioner of the Department of Senior Services. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §1; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §2, Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2011-572, p. 1215, §1; Act 2015-159, §1; Act 2021-484, §1.)
AL Code § 38-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-2 - Duties.

Section 38-3-2Duties. (a) It shall be the duty of the members of the advisory board to meet within 30 days after their appointment, and to elect a chair and other officers from among themselves, who shall serve for a period of two years. Thereafter, the board shall elect a new chair every two years. (b) It shall be the duty of the board to do all of the following: (1) Collect facts and statistics and make special studies of conditions and problems pertaining to the employment, health, financial status, recreation, social adjustment, or other conditions affecting the welfare of the aging people in this state. (2) Keep abreast of the latest developments in this field of activity throughout the nation, and to interpret its findings to the commissioner. (3) Provide for a mutual exchange of ideas and information on national, state, and local levels. (4) Give a report of its advisory activities to the Legislature, and make recommendations for needed improvements and additional resources to promote the welfare of the aging in this state. (5) Serve as an advisory body to the commissioner. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §2; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §1; Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2015-159, §1.)
AL Code § 38-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-3 - Advisory Subcommittees.

Section 38-3-3Advisory subcommittees. The advisory board may create advisory subcommittees to undertake special studies as it shall authorize and co-opt into advisory subcommittees persons qualified in any field of activity relating to the welfare of the aging. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §3; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §1; Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2015-159, §1.)
AL Code § 38-3-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-4 - Compensation.

Section 38-3-4Compensation. The members of the advisory board shall receive no compensation for their services, other than reimbursement for traveling and other expenses actually incurred in the performance of their official duties. The expenses shall be paid in the manner and amount as is provided for other state officers and employees and persons traveling on official business for the state or any of its departments, institutions, boards, bureaus, commissions, councils, committees, or other like agencies. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §4; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §1; Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2015-159, §1.)
AL Code § 38-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-5 - Commissioner, Confidential Secretary, and Other Personnel; Contract for Meals Programs.

Section 38-3-5Commissioner, confidential secretary, and other personnel; contract for meals programs. (a) The Governor shall appoint a commissioner for the Department of Senior Services and a confidential secretary and shall prescribe their duties, powers, and authority to carry out the provisions of this article. The commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor and also shall serve as executive officer and secretary of the board. The commissioner, subject to the Merit System law, shall appoint additional personnel as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this article. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d) of Section 41-16-27, the commissioner may contract with providers for the various meals programs administered by the department for periods of up to five years with five additional one-year extension options at the discretion of the commissioner. With respect to any meals programs contract between the department and any food service provider which was executed prior to August 1, 2004, and which remains in effect as of August 1, 2004, a current meals programs contract, the commissioner may, with the written consent of any such food service provider, elect to extend such current meals programs contract with the extension period to be up to five years with five additional one-year extension options. The extension period shall commence on the day after the end of the current meals programs contract term then in effect. The commissioner may, with the written consent of the food service provider, renegotiate the terms of a current meals programs contract, provided that renegotiation is necessary, in the discretion of the commissioner, to induce the food service provider to enter into a contract extension provided by this subsection and provided further that, in the discretion of the commissioner, the extension of the current meals programs contract will reduce overall costs to the department. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as providing for or affecting any exemption to subsection (a), (b), or (c) of Section 41-16-27. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §5; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §3; Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2004-433, p. 738, §1; Act 2008-398, p. 787, §1; Act 2015-159, §1.)
AL Code § 38-3-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 38 - Public Welfare.|Chapter 3 - Department of Senior Services.|Section 38-3-6 - Authorization to Receive Gifts, Etc.

Section 38-3-6Authorization to receive gifts, etc. The commissioner may receive and hold gifts, devises, bequests of money, real estate, and other things of value to be used in the support and development of department work. Bequests of money shall be deposited into the Alabama Senior Services Trust Fund established and created as a separate fund in the State Treasury. (Acts 1957, No. 554, p. 774, §6; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, p. 214, §4; Act 2000-744, p. 1655, §2; Act 2008-398, p. 787, §1; Act 2015-159, §1.)