SB145 Summary

• Transfers employer contribution responsibility for probate judges' judicial retirement from the state to individual counties beginning October 1, 2013.

• Requires counties to pay monthly "normal contributions" and "accrued liability contributions" plus administrative expenses for the Judicial Retirement Fund, with percentages determined annually by the fund's actuary.

• Maintains probate judges' employee contribution rates at 8.5% of salary (as of October 1, 2012) paid into the Judicial Retirement Fund.

• Amends Code of Alabama 1975, Sections 12-18-1, 12-18-3, and 12-18-82 to implement these changes.

• Requires enactment by two-thirds legislative vote due to creating new local expenditure requirements under Alabama Constitutional Amendment 621, or the state must appropriate funds or provide revenue sources to affected counties.