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HB487
3P68WVZ-2
By Representatives Reynolds, Whitt, Crawford, Blackshear,
Paramore, Clouse, Lee, Givens, Baker, Lovvorn, Paschal, Lamb,
Shirey, Gidley, Holk-Jones, Fidler, Drummond, Clarke, Daniels,
Rafferty, Ledbetter, Nelson, Shaver, DuBose, Myrex, Lomax,
Rehm, Sorrells, Bedsole, Hall, Ensler, Smith, Allbright,
Brown, Robertson
RFD: Ways and Means General Fund
First Read: 19-Feb-26
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First Read: 19-Feb-26
Enrolled, An Act,
To make supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2026, from the Opioid Treatment and
Abatement Fund to the entities and for the purposes herein in
the amount of $43,138,650; and to transfer $5,000,000 that was
appropriated from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund to
the Department of Mental Health in Act 2025-255 of the 2025
Regular Session for a dedicated opioid treatment center to the
Department of Public Health and appropriate those funds to the
Department of Public Health for the same purpose.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the Opioid
Treatment and Abatement Fund the sum of $43,138,650 for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, to the entities and for
the purposes specified herein:
(1) To the Board of Pardons and Paroles for additional
recovery and facility services at CARE in Thomasville and PREP
facility modifications, $1,500,000;
(2) To the Department of Mental Health, $26,360,000. Of
this amount $2,000,000 shall be used for Medicaid State Match;
$1,000,000 shall be used for residential detox; $1,000,000
shall be used to purchase Naloxone; $4,000,000 shall be used
for the 988 Crisis Line; $8,930,000 shall be used for
prevention, treatment, and recovery grants; $7,500,000 shall
be used for co-occurring civil commitment beds; $1,300,000
shall be used for the continuation of the statewide marketing
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shall be used for the continuation of the statewide marketing
campaign; $500,000 shall be used for adolescent substance
abuse treatment; and $130,000 shall be used for medical
medicine education by the Alabama Society of Addiction
Medicine;
(3) To Auburn University for the expansion of the
Harrison College of Pharmacy, K-12 Opioid Prevention Program,
$1,900,000;
(4) To The University of Alabama at Birmingham for the
Psychiatry Residency Program, $2,000,000;
(5) To the USA Health University of South Alabama for
Safer Prescriptions and Diversion Reduction Campaign, EMS
Hotspot, and 211 Integration support, $1,100,000;
(6) To the Administrative Office of Courts for
Specialty Courts, $3,000,000;
(7) To the District Attorneys to be allocated equally
to each district, $2,100,000;
(8) To the Child Advocacy Centers for counseling
sessions, family advocacy sessions, and forensic interviews,
$2,136,650;
(9) To the Office of Prosecution Services for school
resource addiction awareness, and jail support for opioid
treatment of inmates, in cooperation with the Alabama
Sheriff's Association, $1,092,000;
(10) To the Department of Forensic Sciences to increase
lab capacity and purchase of additional fentanyl detection
instrumentation, $450,000;
(11) To the Department of Senior Services for Seniors
and Grandparents Programs, $500,000; and
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and Grandparents Programs, $500,000; and
(12) To the Department of Corrections, $1,000,000. This
funding shall be used to support four initiatives: (i)
expansion of medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) for
incarcerated individuals in work release and general
population settings; (ii) enhancement of recovery services
through evidence-based electronic programming and telehealth
counseling, requiring investment in software and devices;
(iii) implementation of harm-reduction measures by providing
Naloxone to individuals upon release; and (iv) expansion of
substance abuse classes through distance learning.
Section 2. (a) For the fiscal year ending September 30,
2026, the $5,000,000 that was appropriated to the Department
of Mental Health from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund
in Act 2025-255 of the 2025 Regular Session to be used to
establish a dedicated opioid treatment center shall be
transferred from the Department of Mental Health to the
Department of Public Health.
(b) In addition to all other appropriations heretofore
or hereafter made, there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2026, the $5,000,000 transferred to
the Department of Public Health in subsection (a) to
establish a dedicated opioid treatment center using the
Therapeutic Community Treatment Model through an RFP.
Section 3. All funds appropriated in this act not
expended in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, shall
not revert, but shall be carried forward for the purpose
appropriated.
Section 4. This act shall become effective June 1,
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Section 4. This act shall become effective June 1,
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2026.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
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President and Presiding Officer of the Senate
House of Representatives
I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and
was passed by the House 26-Feb-26.
John Treadwell
Clerk
Senate 02-Apr-26 Amended and Passed
House 07-Apr-26 Concurred in Senate
Amendment
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