By:  Bailey                                           H.J.R. No. 62
       73R3355 MWV-D
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the mandatory
    1-2  retirement age for justices and judges.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article V, Section 1-a(1), of the Texas
    1-5  Constitution is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (1)  Subject to the further provisions of this Section, the
    1-7  Legislature shall provide for the retirement and compensation of
    1-8  Justices and Judges of the Appellate Courts and District and
    1-9  Criminal District Courts on account of length of service, age and
   1-10  disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and
   1-11  when needed.  <The office of every such Justice and Judge shall
   1-12  become vacant when the incumbent reaches the age of seventy-five
   1-13  (75) years or such earlier age, not less than seventy (70) years,
   1-14  as the Legislature may prescribe; but, in the case of an incumbent
   1-15  whose term of office includes the effective date of this Amendment,
   1-16  this provision shall not prevent him from serving the remainder of
   1-17  said term nor be applicable to him before his period or periods of
   1-18  judicial service shall have reached a total of ten (10) years.>
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
   1-20  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 1993.
   1-21  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against
   1-22  the proposition:  "The constitutional amendment repealing a
   1-23  mandatory retirement age for justices and judges."