County Commission | The Magazine March 2019 | Page 28

FROM THE COVER
County Expenditures for
Compensation and Benefits
 To reform Alabama’s workers’
compensation law by reasonably
reducing medical costs while not
subjecting employers to increased
payments or expenditures.
 To amend the statute regarding the
appointment of members to the
Board of Control of the Retirement
Systems of Alabama to more closely
reflect the employing agencies of the
participating members of the system.
 To amend current Alabama law to
allow local entities participating in
the Employment Retirement System
the option to shift existing Tier II
benefit employees to the Tier I benefit
structure.
Economic Development and
the Alabama Trust Fund
 To shift 20 percent of the corpus and
future oil lease and royalty payments
of the Alabama Trust Fund into the
County and Municipal Government
Trust Fund, which would thereafter
operate as a separately-maintained
Trust Fund for counties and
municipalities.
Election Administration
 To eliminate the requirement that
the county commission set and fund
school tax elections for municipal
school systems.
 To amend Alabama law reforming the
current Boards of Registrars system
to provide more accountability, state
and local oversight, and minimum
qualifications for appointments.
 To allow the county commission, in its
discretion, to assume responsibility for
the absentee election function when
there is a change in the office of circuit
clerk.
 To remove the authority for the
Secretary of State to decertify poll
books being used by county election
officials, if such equipment was
approved at the time of purchase.
Alabama’s Prisons and
County Jails
 To clarify that persons on parole,
probation or participants in diversion
programs are legally and financially
state inmates for all purposes even when
held for temporary confinement in
the county jail or awaiting hearing or
transfer to a state facility.
 To amend Alabama law to limit the
medical service costs for an individual
in county custody at an amount not
exceeding Alabama’s Medicaid rates
and fees.
Justice and Public Safety
 To amend current Alabama law
allowing the statewide 911 Board to
expend administrative funds to support
the funding and operation of next
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