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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 14, 2013 04:05 PM |
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| From: | Representative William C. Kortz, II |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Co-sponsorship: Minimum Age Requirement for Judicial Officers Legislation (Former House Bill 998) |
| In the near future, I intend to reintroduce legislation to amend Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) to increase the age qualification for judges and magisterial district judges to 25 years of age. Presently, judges and magisterial district judges must be American citizens, members of the Bar, or complete a course of training and instruction. Additionally, these individuals must be 21 years of age. Although I do not associate young adulthood with irresponsibility or incapability, I do believe that the ability to enforce the law and administrate the authority of the courts would be better achieved by a person with additional life experience than that of a 21 year old. A person who wishes to be a judicial officer must have the knowledge and life experience to make prudent decisions that clearly affect peoples' lives. Establishing a minimum age requirement of 25 years ensures that a young adult is not placed in a difficult and unqualified position, which could possibly lead to poor decisions. In order ensure that our judges and magisterial district judges bring a combination of knowledge and experience to the bench, please join me in co-sponsoring this legislation. Co-sponsors of Former House Bill 998 include the following members: Boyd, Briggs, Carroll, D. Costa, Denlinger, Fabrizio, Haluska, Longietti, Mullery, Pashinski, Quinn, Sonney, Vulakovich, and Youngblood |
Introduced as HB1290