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AL SB137

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/19/2019

Primary Sponsor

Thomas Whatley

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2019

AI Summary

  • 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 2020 general election or the next general election thereafter.

  • The first judge elected shall serve a six-year term, taking office the first Monday following the second Tuesday in January after election.

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

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

Legislative Description

Lee Co., additional circuit judge, conditioned on funding for compensation and benefits by county commission, election

Judicial Circuits

Last Action

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary

3/19/2019

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/19/2019

Full Bill Text

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