AlabamaState agencies receive opioid response funding for 2026
For fiscal year 2026, the act directs opioid-abatement money to treatment, prevention, recovery, public safety programs, and a dedicated treatment center.
What it does
Sets aside $43.1 million for opioid treatment, prevention, recovery, crisis services, courts, public safety, and related programs during fiscal year 2026.
Moves $5 million to Public Health to establish a dedicated opioid treatment center using a community-based treatment model and a proposal process.
Argument forFunding could expand treatment, crisis help, recovery services, and overdose prevention for people affected by opioid use.
Argument againstMoving $5 million between agencies could create transition or coordination problems before the dedicated treatment center is established.
More detail
The state provides $43,138,650 from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund to agencies and programs serving people affected by opioid use. Funding goes to parole and recovery facilities, mental health programs, universities, courts, prosecutors, child advocacy centers, forensic services, senior programs, and correctional treatment programs. The money must be used for the listed purposes, including treatment, prevention, recovery, crisis services, court programs, laboratory capacity, and services for incarcerated people. Unspent money does not return to the fund and may be carried forward for the purpose named in the act. The funding covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and the act takes effect June 1, 2026.
The Department of Public Health receives $5 million transferred from the Department of Mental Health to establish a dedicated opioid treatment center. The center must use the Therapeutic Community Treatment Model and be selected through a request for proposals, meaning an agency process for seeking competing plans. The $5 million was previously assigned to the Department of Mental Health for the same treatment-center purpose. The Department of Public Health must use the money to establish the center through the required request-for-proposals process. The transfer and appropriation apply to the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and the act takes effect June 1, 2026.
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Apr 17EnactedBecame Law
- Apr 8Signature Requested
- Apr 8Delivered to GovernorTo Governor
- Apr 7Reynolds Motion to Concur In and Adopt Senate Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1245Major
- Vote recorded Reynolds Motion to Concur In and Adopt Senate Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1245. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7Ready to Enroll
- Apr 7Enrolled
- Apr 2Third Reading in Second House
- Vote recorded Albritton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1125. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1126. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Third Reading in Second House. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 2Albritton 1st Substitute OfferedMinor
- Apr 2Albritton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1125Major
- Apr 2Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1126Passed Senate
- Mar 5Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation General Fund)Minor
- Mar 4Reported Out of Committee Second House
- Feb 26Third Reading in House of Origin
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 615. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Third Reading in House of Origin. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 26Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 615Passed House
- Feb 26Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General FundMinor
- Feb 26Pending Committee Action in Second House (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- Feb 25Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- Feb 25Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means General Fund)Minor
- Feb 19Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means General FundMinor
- Feb 19Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Ways and Means General Fund)Introduced
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