SB291 Alabama 2021 Session

This bill would create an additional circuit judgeship, designated Circuit Judgeship Number 8, in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit comprised of Madison County, an additional circuit judgeship in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit comprised of Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties designated as Circuit Judgeship No. 4, and an additional circuit judgeship, designated Circuit Judgeship Number 6, in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit comprised of Baldwin County. This bill would provide for the authority of the judges, and for the compensation and benefits of the judges

This bill would also further provide for the reallocation of circuit judgeships by the Judicial Resources Allocation Commission

To provide for an additional circuit judgeship in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit comprised of Madison County; to provide for an additional circuit judgeship in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit comprised of Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties; to provide for an additional circuit judgeship in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit comprised of Baldwin County; to further provide for reallocation of vacant circuit judgeships; to provide for the termination of certain judgeships; and to repeal Section 12-9A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Judicial Weighted Caseload Study.