| SYNOPSIS: | Under existing law, Macon County officials are restricted from participating in the Employees' Retirement System and have elected to participate in a supernumerary program. |
| This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to allow certain elected officials in Macon County to participate in the Employees' Retirement System and to prohibit future participation by the officials in a supernumerary program. |
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to provide that certain elected officials in Macon County may participate in the Employees' Retirement System and to terminate participation in supernumerary programs for certain elected officials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, is proposed and shall become valid as a part of the Constitution when all requirements of this act are fulfilled:PROPOSED AMENDMENT
An elected or appointed Macon County official not currently serving as such an official who is elected or appointed after the effective date of this amendment may not assume a supernumerary office. Any person who, on the ratification of this amendment, is entitled to participate in a supernumerary program may continue to participate in that supernumerary program, which shall include the assumption of a supernumerary office according to the terms and conditions of the law which established that supernumerary program. Every elected or appointed Macon County official may participate in the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama upon the same terms and conditions as may be specified by law for any other employee in the same retirement system. Macon County officials holding office at the time of the ratification of this amendment shall be eligible to purchase service credit in the Employees' Retirement System for the time the official has served as a county official. For the purposes of this amendment, the words "elected or appointed county official" shall include any person appointed to serve the remaining term of an elected or appointed county official, including the county coroner, but shall not include a judge, district attorney, legislator, constable, school board member, or any official elected from a judicial circuit.
Section 2. An election upon the proposed amendment shall be held in accordance with Amendment 555 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and the election laws of this state.
Section 3. 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:
"Relating to Macon County, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to eliminate the supernumerary system for certain future elected public officials and to allow them to participate in the Employees' Retirement System.
Proposed by Act _________"
This description shall be followed by the following language:
"Yes ( ) No ( )."