In re J. J.

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

In March 2005, the district court, sitting as a juvenile court, adjudicated J.J. delinquent, assessed a determinate sentence of twenty years, and placed him in the custody of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). In November 2007, the juvenile court ordered that J.J., now nineteen years old, serve the remainder of his sentence in the custody of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In two issues on appeal, J.J. contends that 2007 amendments to the hu*173man resources code bai’red his transfer to TDCJ after he turned nineteen and…