STATE OF ALABAMA LIMESTONE COU...

STATE OF ALABAMA
LIMESTONE COUNTY

NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced in the 2026 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for its passage and enactment will be made:

A BILL

TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


Relating to Limestone County; to amend Section 45-42-230, Code of Alabama 1975; and to further provide for the compensation of the sheriff.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. Section 45-42-230, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

"sect.45-42-230

(a) Beginning with the next term of office, the Sheriff of Limestone County shall receive an annual salary that is 85 percent of the annual salary of the highest paid Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit Court Judge.

(b) Beginning January 18, 2027, the Sheriff of Limestone County shall receive a base annual salary of one hundred forty-nine thousand dollars ($149,000) per annum. This
salary shall be in lieu of the salary provided in subsection (a) which shall be void.

(c) The sheriff shall continue to receive the same cost-of-living increases and other uniform increases as granted to all county employees by the county commission.

(b)(d) The sheriff shall not personally financially benefit from the food account used for the feeding of county and state prisoners."

Section 2. This act shall become effective on October 1, 2026.

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