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AL SB297

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/19/2015

Primary Sponsor

Bill Hightower

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2015

AI Summary

  • Creates an additional circuit judgeship designated Circuit Judgeship Number 12 in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit comprised of Mobile County.

  • Judges to be elected at the November 2016 general election and serve six-year terms beginning the first Monday following the second Tuesday in January.

  • Funding is conditioned on either state funding being available before the qualifying period or Mobile County Commission adopting a resolution to provide 36 months of funding for judge compensation, benefits, a judicial assistant, and court reporter.

  • Judge shall possess all qualifications, jurisdiction, power, and duties of other circuit judges and receive compensation per Chapter 10A of Title 12, Code of Alabama 1975, with no salary supplements or expense allowances for judges elected after October 1, 2001.

  • Act becomes effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval or upon otherwise becoming law.

Legislative Description

Mobile Co., 13th Judicial Circuit, additional circuit judge, conditioned on funding for compensation and benefits by county commission, election

Mobile County

Last Action

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund

3/19/2015

Committee Referrals

Finance and Taxation General Fund3/19/2015

Full Bill Text

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