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HJR 57, 59th R.S.

Proposing an Amendment to Section 1-a of Article V of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by adding to said Section as presently written, the following provisions: requiring automatic retirement of certain District and Appellate Judges at age seventy-five (75) or such earlier age, not under seventy (70), as may be provided by law; creating a State Judicial Qualifications Commission and providing for its composition and the qualifications, methods of selection and terms of office of its members.

Author: Felix McDonald

Session Law Chapter: Acts 1965, 59th R.S., HJR 57

Subjects:
Courts--Judges
Ethics
JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS COMMISSION
Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
Retirement Systems--Judicial
State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed

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