SB238 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rodger SmithermanSenator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Circuit clerks, Judicial Administration Fund, use for merit and promotion raises, Sec. 12-19-310 am'd.

Summary

SB238 lets the Circuit Clerk's Judicial Administration Fund be used to award merit raises and promotion raises for full-time employees in the clerk's office.

What This Bill Does

The bill amends Section 12-19-310 to authorize the Circuit Clerk's Judicial Administration Fund to finance merit and promotion raises for full-time clerk's office staff, at the discretion of each circuit clerk. It keeps existing uses for salaries, benefits, and court operations, but adds this new purpose for clerk's office employees. All fund expenditures remain subject to audit, and docket fees continue to fund the circuit and county funds with this new authority. The act becomes effective October 1, 2017.

Who It Affects

• Full-time employees of circuit clerk's offices who may receive merit-based or promotion-based pay raises funded by the Circuit Clerk's Judicial Administration Fund.
• Circuit clerks and their offices, who gain discretionary authority to allocate funds for merit and promotion raises for clerk's office staff.

Key Provisions

• Amends Section 12-19-310 to allow the Circuit Clerk's Judicial Administration Fund to be used for merit and promotion raises for full-time clerk's office employees.
• Grants each circuit clerk discretion to use the Fund for merit and promotion raises, beyond existing uses for salaries/benefits and court operations.
• Maintains funding from docket fees distributed to the State Judicial Administration Fund and the Circuit Clerk's Judicial Administration Fund, with expenditures audited like other state funds.
• Effective date: October 1, 2017.

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Subjects

Circuit Clerks