SB407 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Sam Givhan Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Judges, vacancies, initial term of judges appt. to fill, further provided for, Amendment 328, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, am'd, const. amend.

Description

Under existing law, a judge, except a judge of probate, appointed to fill a vacancy, except as otherwise provided in a local constitutional amendment, serves an initial term until the next term begins following the general election after the judge has completed one year in office.

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to provide that a judge appointed to fill a vacancy would serve an initial term until the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January following the general election after the judge has completed two years in office or the remainder of the original term of the judge elected to office, whichever is longer.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments