Bill Text: TX SJR12 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the establishment of limits on the number of terms judges and justices may serve on courts in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR12-Introduced.html
By: Huffines | S.J.R. No. 12 | |
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proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the establishment | ||
of limits on the number of terms judges and justices may serve on | ||
courts in this state. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article V, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 32 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32. (a) The legislature by general law shall require | ||
the Supreme Court, in consultation with the Court of Criminal | ||
Appeals, to establish a limit on the number of terms a judge or | ||
justice may be elected to serve as a judge or justice of a court | ||
established under this article, by the legislature under general | ||
law, or by the governing body of a municipality by ordinance. | ||
(b) A judge or justice who has been elected to serve on a | ||
court for the maximum number of terms established by the Supreme | ||
Court, in consultation with the Court of Criminal Appeals, as | ||
required by Subsection (a) of this section is not eligible for | ||
election to serve an additional term on that court. | ||
(c) The term of a person appointed to serve on a court for | ||
the remainder of a term or to fill a vacancy on the court is not | ||
counted in determining whether the person is eligible to serve | ||
under Subsection (b) of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2017, requiring the legislature by general law to | ||
require the Supreme Court, in consultation with the Court of | ||
Criminal Appeals, to establish a limit on the number of terms a | ||
judge or justice may serve on a court in this state. | ||
(b) The Supreme Court shall establish the limit as required | ||
by the general law enacted under Subsection (a) of this temporary | ||
provision not later than December 1, 2018. | ||
(c) A term that begins before January 1, 2019, is not | ||
counted in determining whether a judge or justice is eligible to | ||
serve on a court under Section 32, Article V, of this constitution. | ||
(d) This temporary provision expires February 1, 2039. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the | ||
legislature to establish term limits for judges and justices | ||
serving on courts in this state." |