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."