SB337INTRODUCED Page 0 SB337 BYYCFQJ-1 By Senator Barfoot (N & P) RFD: Local Legislation First Read: 22-Apr-25 1 2 3 4 5 BYYCFQJ-1 02/26/2025 THR (L)ma 2025-1026 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 SB337 INTRODUCED Page 2 amount shall not be increased by more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) in any fiscal year. (d) Any individual who has served at least six full years as the Montgomery County Judge of Probate shall receive as his or her total compensation a salary in an amount equal to the salary of a circuit judge with the same years of service as the judge of probate. This compensation shall be in lieu of any other compensation provided by law to the Montgomery County Judge of Probate. " Section 2. This act shall become effective on June 1, 2025. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38