SB286 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated Jun 14, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Sam GivhanSenator
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Will Barfoot Tom Butler Clyde Chambliss Chris Elliott Steve Livingston Tim Melson
Session: Regular Session 2021
Title: Courts, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit, additional circuit judge, DeKalb County, district judge, compensation and benefits, election
Description: This bill would create an additional circuit judgeship, designated as Circuit Judgeship Number 8, in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit comprised of Madison County, an additional circuit judgeship, designated as Circuit Judgeship Number 4, in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit comprised of Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties, and an additional circuit judgeship, designated Circuit Judgeship Number 6, in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit comprised of Baldwin County.
This bill would also create an additional district judgeship, designated as District Judgeship Number 2, in DeKalb County.
This bill would also provide for the authority of the judges and for the compensation and benefits of the judges.
Subjects: Madison County

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary