Section 21-5-10 – Annual Report and Evaluation.
Section 21-5-10 Annual report and evaluation. The committee shall make a formal evaluation and shall make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature, including therein suggestions and recommendations for protecting and improving the state’s effectiveness in employing or helping to employ handicapped individuals. The annual report and evaluation shall be submitted to the […]
Section 21-8-1 – Definitions.
Section 21-8-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) COMMITTEE. The Hemophilia Advisory Committee established by this chapter. (2) HEMOPHILIA. A bleeding disorder resulting from a genetically determined deficiency factor in the blood, or hereditarily resulting in an abnormal or […]
Section 21-9-12 – Continuation of Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services; Dissolution.
Section 21-9-12 Continuation of Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilition Services; dissolution. The Board of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Rehabilitation Services shall automatically continue in existence, but both may be dissolved and all operations restored to the State Board of Education and to the State Department of Education, respectively, by passage […]
Section 21-6-1 – Authorized; Contracts With State Agencies and Private Organizations.
Section 21-6-1 Authorized; contracts with state agencies and private organizations. The Children’s Rehabilitation Services of the Department of Rehabilitation Services is authorized to establish a rehabilitation program for the homebound to provide medical and attendant care and adjustment aids to those handicapped persons who meet certain requirements stated in this chapter. The Children’s Rehabilitation Services […]
Section 21-8-2 – Legislative Intent.
Section 21-8-2 Legislative intent. In order to foster the health, welfare, and safety of the people of this state and to facilitate the research and treatment of hemophilia and related diseases, it is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to achieve the maximum practical degree of care and treatment for persons suffering […]
Section 21-9-13 – Administrative Action.
Section 21-9-13 Administrative action. The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education shall take all administrative action, including the transfer of funds, appropriate and necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this act. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §13.)
Section 21-6-2 – Services Available to Eligible Persons.
Section 21-6-2 Services available to eligible persons. Services that may be provided eligible persons, if not available from other sources, include: (1) Medical care; (2) Adjustment training; (3) Attendant care; (4) Prosthetic appliances; (5) Home health care by health care teams; (6) Home modification; provided, that no more than $1,000.00 shall be expended on any […]
Section 21-8-3 – Treatment Program Established.
Section 21-8-3 Treatment program established. There is hereby established the Hemophilia Treatment Program in Alabama, to be administered by the Children’s Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Rehabilitation Services. Such treatment program shall use the existing facilities and staff of the Children’s Rehabilitation Service, as required, for the care and treatment of persons suffering from […]
Section 21-9-14 – Office to Provide Information Regarding Americans With Disabilities Act; Toll-Free Telephone Number; Performance of Duties; Immunity.
Section 21-9-14 Office to provide information regarding Americans with Disabilities Act; toll-free telephone number; performance of duties; immunity. (a) There shall be established at the Department of Rehabilitation Services a toll-free telephone number in an office staffed by an assistant or deputy attorney general to provide information on the rights and responsibilities under the Americans […]
Section 21-6-3 – Eligibility Requirements.
Section 21-6-3 Eligibility requirements. Services available under this chapter may be provided to any person who: (1) Has made application therefor to the director of the Children’s Rehabilitation Service in the manner prescribed by him; (2) Has a severe disability that causes the person to be homebound, such disability to be certified by an appropriate […]