HB602ENGROSSED Page 0 HB602 EJPQM92-2 By Representative Ingram (N & P) RFD: Montgomery County Legislation First Read: 22-Apr-25 1 2 3 4 5 HB602 Engrossed Page 1 First Read: 22-Apr-25 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to Montgomery County; to amend Section 45-51-84, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the compensation of the judge of probate. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. Section 45-51-84, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: "ยง45-51-84 (a) The per annum compensation shall be eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) for the judge of probate effective October 1, 1996. (b) The compensation amount in subsection (a) shall be paid out of the general fund of the Montgomery County Commission in the same manner as other county employees are paid. (c) Subsequent to October 1, 1996, the compensation amount in subsection (a) shall be increased by the same percentage as the across-the-board percentage increase received by full-time county employees at the same time as the increase is received by the county employees, except that the amount shall not be increased by more than three thousand 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 HB602 Engrossed Page 2 amount shall not be increased by more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) in any fiscal year. (d) Beginning October 1, 2025, the individual serving as judge of probate on June 1, 2025, in lieu of any other salary, shall receive a salary of one hundred fifty-three thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars ($153,725) per year." Section 2. This act shall become effective on June 1, 2025. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 HB602 Engrossed Page 3 2025. House of Representatives Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Montgomery County Legislation ................22-Apr-25 Read for the second time and placed on the calendar: 0 amendments ................24-Apr-25 Read for the third time and passed as amended Yeas 15 Nays 0 Abstains 88 ................29-Apr-25 John Treadwell Clerk 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58