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| 2 | 2 | | By: Hinojosa S.J.R. No. 40 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A JOINT RESOLUTION |
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| 6 | 6 | | proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory age |
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| 7 | 7 | | of retirement for state justices and judges. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 1-a(1), Article V, Texas Constitution, |
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| 10 | 10 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (1) Subject to the further provisions of this Section, |
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| 12 | 12 | | the Legislature shall provide for the retirement and compensation |
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| 13 | 13 | | of Justices and Judges of the Appellate Courts and District and |
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| 14 | 14 | | Criminal District Courts on account of length of service, age and |
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| 15 | 15 | | disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and |
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| 16 | 16 | | when needed. The office of every such Justice and Judge shall |
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| 17 | 17 | | become vacant on the expiration of the term during which the |
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| 18 | 18 | | incumbent reaches the age of 79 [seventy-five (75)] years or such |
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| 19 | 19 | | earlier age, not less than 75 [seventy (70)] years, as the |
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| 20 | 20 | | Legislature may prescribe[, except that if a Justice or Judge |
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| 21 | 21 | | elected to serve or fill the remainder of a six-year term reaches |
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| 22 | 22 | | the age of seventy-five (75) years during the first four years of |
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| 23 | 23 | | the term, the office of that Justice or Judge shall become vacant on |
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| 24 | 24 | | December 31 of the fourth year of the term to which the Justice or |
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| 25 | 25 | | Judge was elected]. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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| 27 | 27 | | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. |
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| 28 | 28 | | The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the |
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| 29 | 29 | | proposition: "The constitutional amendment to increase the |
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| 30 | 30 | | mandatory age of retirement for state justices and judges." |
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