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Judiciary Committee backs ballot question to raise judges' mandatory retirement age to 73
Summary
After extended debate over recruitment and pension impacts, the Judiciary Committee voted to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 73 and add orphans' court judges to that requirement.
The Judiciary Committee voted to send a proposed constitutional amendment to the ballot that would raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 73 and add orphans' court judges to the mandatory-retirement rule. The committee adopted an amendment adding orphans' court judges and approved the measure on a roll-call vote.
Committee members spent much of the discussion probing the policy's goals and fiscal effects. "The fiscal analysis shows that this is gonna have a $21,000,000 benefit to the state," said Carter, a committee fiscal analyst, citing the…
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