AL HB530

Creates an additional circuit judgeship designated Circuit Judgeship Number 4 in the Thirty-seventh Judicial Circuit comprised of Lee County.

The judge shall be elected at the November 2016 general election or the next general election thereafter, subject to preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The first judge elected to this position shall serve a six-year term, beginning the first Monday following the second Tuesday in January after election.

The elected judge shall possess all jurisdictions, powers, rights, authority, qualifications, and duties of other circuit judges in the same manner.

Annual compensation shall be governed by Chapter 10A of Title 12, Code of Alabama 1975, with no salary supplements or expense allowances for judges first elected or appointed after October 1, 2001.