HLS 20RS-169 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 27
BY REPRESENTATIVE BAGLEY
JUDGES: Provides relative to the mandatory retirement age for judges
1 AN ACT
2To repeal R.S. 13:10.1, relative to public office and public employment; to provide for the
3 elimination of the mandatory retirement age for judges; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:10.1 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
7 Section 2. This Act shall take effect and become operative if and when the proposed
8amendment of Article V, Section 23 of the Constitution of Louisiana contained in the Act
9which originated as House Bill No. of this 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature is
10adopted at a statewide election and becomes effective.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 27 Original 2020 Regular Session Bagley
Abstract: Eliminates the mandatory retirement age requirement for all judges statutorily.
Present law provides that any judge who was in office on Dec. 31, 1974, and who reaches
his mandatory retirement age within twelve months prior to the primary election at which
his successor is to be elected, may serve through the end of the term to which he was elected.
Proposed law eliminates the mandatory retirement age for judges.
Effective Jan. 1, 2021, if the proposed amendment of Article V, Section 23 of the
Constitution of La. contained in the Act which originated as House Bill No. of this 2020
R.S. of the Legislature is adopted at a statewide election and becomes effective.
(Repeals R.S. 13:10.1)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.