HB494 updates overtime rules for Tuscaloosa County and its cities and adds a four-10-hour-shift option for some Northport/Tuscaloosa police positions, with overtime or compensatory leave chosen by the officer.
It amends Act 80-536 to keep overtime pay (time and a half) or compensatory leave for law enforcement officers who work more than eight hours in a day or more than 40 hours in a week, with the officer choosing which option. It also allows the City of Northport and the City of Tuscaloosa to adopt a four 10-hour-shifts-per-week schedule for certain police positions, changing the overtime rules for those officers to trigger after 10 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, again with the officer’s choice of pay or leave. Officers not in the four-10-hour-shift group would stay under the existing rule of eight-hour days and forty-hour weeks. The changes take effect immediately after the governor signs the bill.
Delivered to Governor at 12:51 p.m. on April 7, 2022.
Assigned Act No. 2022-407.
Clerk of the House Certification
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1053
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 710
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Tuscaloosa County Legislation
Source: Alabama Legislature