HB365 is a local act affecting Talladega County that revises the compensation structure for the county sheriff. The bill keeps the sheriff’s current base annual salary in place through January 18, 2027, while adding an annual expense allowance of $15,200.32 paid from the county general fund beginning when the act takes effect.
Starting January 18, 2027, the bill replaces the current salary-and-allowance arrangement with a single base salary of $112,000 per year, also paid from the county general fund. At that point, the prior salary and expense allowance provisions become void. The bill also repeals a series of prior local acts dating from 1957 through 2021 that had governed the sheriff’s compensation, consolidating and superseding those earlier laws.
Impact
The bill changes only local law for Talladega County by resetting and simplifying the statutory compensation scheme for the sheriff. It shifts the county sheriff’s pay from a patchwork of prior local acts to a new, time-phased structure funded by the county general fund, and it expressly repeals multiple prior acts governing sheriff compensation. The practical effect is to standardize the office’s compensation going forward and to eliminate older, conflicting local provisions.
Sentiment
The available voting history shows strong, unanimous support for HB365 in both chambers, with no recorded opposition on any vote. The bill passed the House of Origin and the Second House by wide margins, indicating broad agreement on revising the sheriff’s compensation for Talladega County. No committee transcript is available, so there is no recorded debate or expressed dissent in the provided materials.
Contention
There is no visible contention in the provided record, as all recorded votes were unanimous and no committee discussion is available. If any issue were likely to draw attention, it would be the cost to the Talladega County general fund and the decision to replace multiple prior local acts with a new compensation schedule, but the voting record does not show any opposition to those changes.