Ala. Code § 31-9A-11: Regular and Emergency Appropriations; State Grants to Political Subdivisions.

(a) The funds appropriated by the Legislature in the general appropriation act for the support and maintenance of the department shall be expended solely for the purposes designated in the appropriation act and shall be limited to the amounts provided therein and shall be disbursed, in the same manner as all other state funds are disbursed, by warrant of the Comptroller authorized by the director.

(b) The department may coordinate the receipt, distribution, and monitoring of all funds available for homeland security purposes that may be appropriated, or provided by any grant program, to any political subdivision of the state in amounts not to exceed the amounts expended, or to be expended, by the political subdivision for training, planning, education, exercises, personnel, and administrative costs of local homeland security preparedness.