SB72 Summary

• Amends Alabama Code Section 12-17-213 to remove minimum age requirement (previously age 60) and minimum years of service requirement for district attorneys to become supernumerary district attorneys.

• Allows any district attorney who served 18 years and meets other qualifications to elect supernumerary status by filing a written declaration with the Governor.

• Provides special eligibility for any person elected or appointed as district attorney prior to November 8, 2016, who held office through or after January 1, 2019, to become supernumerary without meeting the 18-year service requirement.

• Requires district attorneys qualifying for both supernumerary salary and retirement pension benefits (effective October 1, 2021) to elect one or the other, but not both, while preserving survivor benefits eligibility.

• Permits supernumerary district attorneys receiving state salary to work for employers in the Employees' Retirement System, subject to annual compensation limits under Section 36-27-8.2.

• Effective date: October 1, 2021.