AL SB181

Authorizes the Administrative Office of Courts to create a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity to develop, manage, and fund judicial education plans, conferences, and programs for justices, judges, and court-supportive personnel

Permits the nonprofit to collect nonpublic funds and hold them in accounts outside the State Treasury, subject to annual audit or review by a certified independent accounting entity

Allows the Administrative Office of Courts and other state agencies to transfer state funds to the nonprofit for judicial education purposes

Enables the nonprofit to be housed at the Administrative Office of Courts and staffed by its employees

Effective date: May 1, 2026; provisions are designated as remedial and curative, ratifying any prior conforming actions by the Administrative Office of Courts