Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB450 Compare Versions

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3	3	HB450
4	4	5VL4C66-1
5	5	By Representative Underwood (Constitutional Amendment)
6	6	RFD: Judiciary
7	7	First Read: 18-Mar-25
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, an
17	17	individual is not eligible to be elected or appointed
18	18	to a judicial office after reaching 70 years of age.
19	19	This bill would propose an amendment to the
20	20	Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to provide that an
21	21	individual is not eligible to be elected or appointed
22	22	to a judicial office after reaching 75 years of age.
23	23	A BILL
24	24	TO BE ENTITLED
25	25	AN ACT
26	26	Relating to judges; to propose an amendment to Section
27	27	155 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to further provide
28	28	for eligibility to be elected or appointed as a judge.
29	29	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
30	30	Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution
31	31	of Alabama of 2022, is proposed:
32	32	PROPOSED AMENDMENT
33	33	Section 155 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022 is
34	34	amended to read as follows:
35	35	Section 155
36	36	The legislature Legislature shall provide by law for
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66	66	The legislature Legislature shall provide by law for
67	67	the retirement of judges, including supernumerary judges, with
68	68	such conditions, retirement benefits, and pensions for them
69	69	and their dependents as it may prescribe. No person An
70	70	individual shall not be elected or appointed to a judicial
71	71	office after reaching the age of seventy 75 years of age,
72	72	provided that a judge over the age of seventy 75 years of age
73	73	may be appointed to the office of supernumerary judge if he or
74	74	she is not eligible to receive state judicial retirement
75	75	benefits.
76	76	Upon ratification of this constitutional amendment, the
77	77	Code Commissioner shall number and place this amendment as
78	78	appropriate in the constitution omitting this instructional
79	79	paragraph and may make the following nonsubstantive revisions:
80	80	change capitalization, hierarchy, spelling, and punctuation
81	81	for purposes of style and uniformity; correct manifest
82	82	grammatical, clerical, and typographical errors; revise
83	83	internal or external citations and cross-references; harmonize
84	84	language; and translate effective dates.
85	85	END OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT
86	86	Section 2. An election upon the proposed amendment
87	87	shall be held in accordance with Sections 284 and 285 of the
88	88	Constitution of Alabama of 2022, and the election laws of this
89	89	state. The appropriate election official shall assign a ballot
90	90	number for the proposed constitutional amendment on the
91	91	election ballot and shall set forth the following description
92	92	of the substance or subject matter of the proposed
93	93	constitutional amendment:
94	94	"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama
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124	124	"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama
125	125	of 2022, to raise the age when an individual is no longer
126	126	eligible to be elected or appointed to a judicial office from
127	127	70 years of age to 75 years of age.
128	128	Proposed by Act ____. "
129	129	This description shall be followed by the following
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132	132	Section 3. The proposed amendment shall become valid as
133	133	a part of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, when approved
134	134	by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.
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