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HB450
5VL4C66-1
By Representative Underwood (Constitutional Amendment)
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 18-Mar-25
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5 5VL4C66-1 03/03/2025 THR (L)ma 2025-850
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First Read: 18-Mar-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, an
individual is not eligible to be elected or appointed
to a judicial office after reaching 70 years of age.
This bill would propose an amendment to the
Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to provide that an
individual is not eligible to be elected or appointed
to a judicial office after reaching 75 years of age.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to judges; to propose an amendment to Section
155 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to further provide
for eligibility to be elected or appointed as a judge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution
of Alabama of 2022, is proposed:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
Section 155 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022 is
amended to read as follows:
Section 155
The legislature Legislature shall provide by law for
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The legislature Legislature shall provide by law for
the retirement of judges, including supernumerary judges, with
such conditions, retirement benefits, and pensions for them
and their dependents as it may prescribe. No person An
individual shall not be elected or appointed to a judicial
office after reaching the age of seventy 75 years of age,
provided that a judge over the age of seventy 75 years of age
may be appointed to the office of supernumerary judge if he or
she is not eligible to receive state judicial retirement
benefits.
Upon ratification of this constitutional amendment, the
Code Commissioner shall number and place this amendment as
appropriate in the constitution omitting this instructional
paragraph and may make the following nonsubstantive revisions:
change capitalization, hierarchy, spelling, and punctuation
for purposes of style and uniformity; correct manifest
grammatical, clerical, and typographical errors; revise
internal or external citations and cross-references; harmonize
language; and translate effective dates.
END OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT
Section 2. An election upon the proposed amendment
shall be held in accordance with Sections 284 and 285 of the
Constitution of Alabama of 2022, and the election laws of this
state. The appropriate election official shall assign a ballot
number for the proposed constitutional amendment on the
election ballot and shall set forth the following description
of the substance or subject matter of the proposed
constitutional amendment:
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama
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"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama
of 2022, to raise the age when an individual is no longer
eligible to be elected or appointed to a judicial office from
70 years of age to 75 years of age.
Proposed by Act ____. "
This description shall be followed by the following
language:
"Yes( ) No( )."
Section 3. The proposed amendment shall become valid as
a part of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, when approved
by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.
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