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AL HB145
Bill
Status
3/21/2023
Primary Sponsor
Jim Hill
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AI Summary
HB145 Summary
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Creates 8 new circuit judgeships and 5 new district judgeships across Alabama counties to be filled through general elections, with initial judges serving six-year terms.
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Fiscal Year 2024 funding supports 3 circuit judgeships (Eleventh, Nineteenth, and Twenty-eighth circuits) and 2 district judgeships (Baldwin and DeKalb counties).
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Fiscal Year 2025 funding supports 3 circuit judgeships (Sixth, Twenty-third, and Thirty-seventh circuits) and 2 district judgeships (Mobile and Shelby counties).
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Fiscal Year 2026 funding supports 2 circuit judgeships (Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth circuits) and 1 district judgeship (Madison County).
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New judges 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.
Legislative Description
To provide for additional circuit judgeships and additional district judgeships to be funded out of the State General Fund in Fiscal Years 2024, 2025, and 2026; and to provide for the authority of the judges and for the compensation and benefits of the judges.
Last Action
Introduced and Referred to House Ways and Means General Fund
3/21/2023