| 1 | | - | H.J.R. No. 107 |
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| 1 | + | By: Price, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.J.R. No. 107 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2023; |
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| 3 | + | May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | + | Jurisprudence; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | + | vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 5 | 10 | | proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory age |
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| 6 | 11 | | of retirement for state justices and judges. |
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| 7 | 12 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 1-a(1), Article V, Texas Constitution, |
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| 9 | 14 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 10 | 15 | | (1) Subject to the further provisions of this Section, |
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| 11 | 16 | | the Legislature shall provide for the retirement and compensation |
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| 12 | 17 | | of Justices and Judges of the Appellate Courts and District and |
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| 13 | 18 | | Criminal District Courts on account of length of service, age and |
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| 14 | 19 | | disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and |
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| 15 | 20 | | when needed. The office of every such Justice and Judge shall |
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| 16 | 21 | | become vacant on the expiration of the term during which the |
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| 17 | 22 | | incumbent reaches the age of 79 [seventy-five (75)] years or such |
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| 18 | 23 | | earlier age, not less than 75 [seventy (70)] years, as the |
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| 19 | 24 | | Legislature may prescribe[, except that if a Justice or Judge |
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| 20 | 25 | | elected to serve or fill the remainder of a six-year term reaches |
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| 21 | 26 | | the age of seventy-five (75) years during the first four years of |
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| 22 | 27 | | the term, the office of that Justice or Judge shall become vacant on |
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| 23 | 28 | | December 31 of the fourth year of the term to which the Justice or |
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| 24 | 29 | | Judge was elected]. |
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| 25 | 30 | | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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| 26 | 31 | | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. |
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| 27 | 32 | | The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the |
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| 28 | 33 | | proposition: "The constitutional amendment to increase the |
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| 29 | 34 | | mandatory age of retirement for state justices and judges." |
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| 30 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 31 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 32 | | - | I certify that H.J.R. No. 107 was passed by the House on April |
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| 33 | | - | 26, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 5, 1 present, not |
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| 34 | | - | voting. |
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| 35 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 36 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 37 | | - | I certify that H.J.R. No. 107 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 38 | | - | 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. |
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| 39 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 40 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 41 | | - | RECEIVED: _____________________ |
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| 42 | | - | Date |
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| 43 | | - | _____________________ |
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| 44 | | - | Secretary of State |
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| 35 | + | * * * * * |
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