2022 Code of Alabama
Title 14 - Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities.
Chapter 1 - Board and Department of Corrections.
Section 14-1-21 - Costs of Health Care Reimbursed to County; per Diem for Housing and Care.

Section 14-1-21

Costs of health care reimbursed to county; per diem for housing and care.

(a)(1) Counties are not financially responsible for the cost of health care provided to a parolee or probationer charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation.

(2) The county may submit an invoice to the Department of Corrections for reimbursement of the county's cost of health care administered outside the county jail and actual costs of any care administered in the county jail. Invoices must be paid by the department within 60 days of the receipt of the invoice.

(b)(1)a. The Department of Corrections shall pay a county jail housing and caring for parolees and probationers charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation a per diem of twenty-eight dollars ($28) per day the parolee or probationer is housed in the county jail.

b. Every three years the rate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance using the Consumer Price Index for the previous three years.

(2) The county may submit an invoice to the Department of Corrections for payment of the per diem provided in subdivision (1). Invoices must be paid by the department within 60 days of the receipt of the invoice.

(c)(1) If, after 60 days of receipt of an invoice, the Department of Corrections has failed to pay for the health care of parolees and probationers as required in subsection (a), or has failed to pay the per diem as required in subsection (b), a county may file a claim with the Board of Adjustment.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Adjustment shall hear any claim filed by any county pursuant to this subsection within 45 days of the filing of a claim.

(Act 2021-249, §3.)