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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY 

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Note: In the absence of enacted FY 2019 full year 

appropriations, the judiciary built its FY 2020 language 

requests using the House-passed version of the FY 2019

Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill. 

Therefore, the bracketed and italicized changes reflected 

below are being made to FY 2019 language as it appears in

H.R. 6147.

SEC. 301. Appropriations and authorizations made in this title 

which are available for salaries and expenses shall be available 

for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.

SEC. 302. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 

available for the current fiscal year for the Judiciary in this Act 

may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such 

appropriation, except ‘‘Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and 

Other Judicial Services, Defender Services’’ and ‘‘Courts of 

Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services, Fees of 

Jurors and Commissioners’’, shall be increased by more than 

10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer 

pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of 

funds under sections 604 and 608 of this Act and shall not be 

available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 

with the procedures set forth in section 608.

SEC. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 

salaries and expenses appropriation for ‘‘Courts of Appeals, 

District Courts, and Other Judicial Services’’ shall be available 

for official reception and representation expenses of the 

Judicial Conference of the United States: Provided, That such

available funds shall not exceed $11,000 and shall be 

administered by the Director of the Administrative Office of 

the United States Courts in the capacity as Secretary of the 

Judicial Conference.

SEC. 304. Section 3315(a) of title 40, United States Code, shall 

be applied by substituting ‘‘Federal’’ for ‘‘executive’’ each 

place it appears.

SEC. 305. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. 561–569, and 

notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States 

Marshals Service shall provide, for such courthouses as its 

Director may designate in consultation with the Director of the 

Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for purposes 

of a pilot program, the security services that 40 U.S.C. 1315 

authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to provide, 

except for the services specified in 40 U.S.C. 1315(b)(2)(E).

For building-specific security services at these courthouses, the 

Director of the Administrative Office of the United States 

Courts shall reimburse the United States Marshals Service 

rather than the Department of Homeland Security.

SEC. 306. (a) Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improvements Act 

of 1990 (Public Law 101–650; 28 U.S.C. 133 note), is 

amended in the second sentence (relating to the District of 

Kansas) following paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘[27]28 years 

and 6 months’’ and inserting ‘‘[28]29 years and 6 months’’.

(b) Section 406 of the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and 

Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, 

and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public 

Law 109–115; 119 Stat. 2470; 28 U.S.C. 133 note) is amended 

in the second sentence (relating to the Eastern District of
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Missouri) by striking ‘‘[25]26 years and 6 months’’ and 

inserting ‘‘[26]27 years and 6 months’’.

(c) Section 312(c)(2) of the 21st Century Department of Justice 

Appropriations Authorization Act (Public Law 107–273; 28

U.S.C. 133 note), is amended—

[(1) in the first sentence by inserting after “except in the case 

of” the following: “the northern district of Alabama,”;

(2) in the first sentence by inserting after “the central district of 

California” the following: “,”;]

([3]1) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘[16]17 years’’ and 

inserting ‘‘[17]18 years’’;

[(4) by adding at the end of the first sentence the following: 

“The first vacancy in the office of district judge in the 

northern district of Alabama occurring 16 years or more after 

the confirmation of the judge named to fill the temporary 

district judgeship created in that district by this subsection, 

shall not be filled.”;]

([5]2) in the third sentence (relating to the central District of 

California), by striking ‘‘[15]16 years and 6 months’’ and 

inserting ‘‘[16]17 years and 6 months’’; and

([6]3) in the fourth sentence (relating to the western district of 

North Carolina), by striking ‘‘[14]15 years’’ and inserting 

‘‘[15]16 years’’.

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Judiciary Appropriations Act,

[2019]2020’’.

Explanation of Changes

Revised Section 306: This language extends for 12 months 

the authorizations of eight temporary district judgeships that 

are assumed to be extended in FY 2019 and whose 

authorizations will then expire on a rolling basis between 

April and September of FY 2020. The language assumes the 

extension of only those temporary district judgeships 

reflected in the most recent judgeship recommendations of 

the Judicial Conference.