88R5843 AMF-F
 
  By: Price, Thompson of Harris, Murr, Vasut H.J.R. No. 107
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory age
  of retirement for state justices and judges.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1-a(1), Article V, Texas Constitution,
  is amended to read as follows:
               (1)  Subject to the further provisions of this Section,
  the Legislature shall provide for the retirement and compensation
  of Justices and Judges of the Appellate Courts and District and
  Criminal District Courts on account of length of service, age and
  disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and
  when needed. The office of every such Justice and Judge shall
  become vacant on the expiration of the term during which the
  incumbent reaches the age of 79 [seventy-five (75)] years or such
  earlier age, not less than 75 [seventy (70)] years, as the
  Legislature may prescribe[, except that if a Justice or Judge
  elected to serve or fill the remainder of a six-year term reaches
  the age of seventy-five (75) years during the first four years of
  the term, the office of that Justice or Judge shall become vacant on
  December 31 of the fourth year of the term to which the Justice or
  Judge was elected].
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment to increase the
  mandatory age of retirement for state justices and judges."