SB396 Alabama 2014 Session

Under existing law, at periodic intervals, cost-of-living increases are provided for certain state employees and public education employees

This bill would provide for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, the salary for certain state employees and public education employees shall be increased in an amount equal to the percentage amount reflecting the cost-of-living adjustment indicated by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for the preceding index year

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in Amendment 621

To provide for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, the salary for certain state employees and public education employees shall be increased in an amount equal to the percentage amount reflecting the cost-of-living adjustment indicated by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for the preceding index year; and in connection therewith would have its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.