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the District Court of the Virgin Islands,’’ and inserting 
‘‘and the District Court of Guam,’’. 
(l) INTERLOCUTORY DECISIONS.—Section 1292 of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, the United 
States District Court for the District of the Canal 
Zone, the District Court of Guam, and the District 
Court of the Virgin Islands,’’ and inserting ‘‘and the 
District Court of Guam,’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(4)(A), by striking ‘‘the 
District Court of the Virgin Islands,’’. 
(m) JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT 
OF
APPEALS
FOR
THE
FEDERAL
CIRCUIT.—Section 
1295(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended in 
paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
(1) by striking ‘‘the United States District 
Court for the District of the Canal Zone,’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘the District Court of the Virgin 
Islands,’’. 
(n) UNITED
STATES
AS
DEFENDANT.—Section 
1346(b)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘, together with the United States District 
Court for the District of the Canal Zone and the District 
Court of the Virgin Islands,’’.
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(o) ADEQUATE
REPRESENTATION
OF
DEFEND-
ANTS.—Section 3006A(j) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘the District Court of the Virgin 
Islands,’’. 
(p) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.— 
(1) TENURE OF INCUMBENT JUDGES.—A judge 
of the District Court of the Virgin Islands in office 
on the effective date of this section shall continue in 
office until the expiration of the term for which the 
judge was appointed, or until the judge dies, resigns, 
or is removed from office, whichever occurs first. 
When a vacancy occurs on the court on or after the 
effective date of this section, the President, in ac-
cordance with section 133(a) of title 28, United 
States Code, shall appoint, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, a district judge for the 
District of the Virgin Islands. 
(2) RETIREMENT RIGHTS AND BENEFITS.—The 
amendments made by this section shall not affect 
the rights under sections 373 and 376 of title 28, 
United States Code, of any judge of the District 
Court of the Virgin Islands who retires on or before 
the effective date of this section or who continues in 
office after that date under paragraph (1) of this 
subsection. Service as a judge of the District Court
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of the Virgin Islands appointed under section 24 of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1614) shall be included in calculating service 
under sections 371 and 372 of title 28, United 
States Code, and shall not be counted for purposes 
of section 373 of that title, if the judge is re-
appointed, after the effective date of this section, 
under section 133(a) of title 28, United States Code, 
as district judge for the District of the Virgin Is-
lands. 
(q) AMENDMENTS TO REVISED ORGANIC ACT OF 
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.— 
(1) REPEALS.—Sections 24, 25, 26, and 27 of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1614, 1615, 1616 and 1617) are repealed. 
(2) RIGHTS AND PROHIBITIONS.—Section 3 of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1561) is amended in the 23d undesignated 
paragraph— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘article III;’’ after ‘‘sec-
tion 9, clauses 2 and 3;’’ and 
(B) by striking ‘‘That all offenses against 
the laws of the United States’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘section 22(b) of this Act or’’ and
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inserting ‘‘That all offenses against the laws of 
the Virgin Islands which are prosecuted’’. 
(3) JURISDICTION.—Section 21 of the Revised 
Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1611) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 21. JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE VIRGIN 
ISLANDS. 
‘‘(a) JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE VIRGIN 
ISLANDS.—The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall 
be vested in such trial and appellate courts as may have 
been or may hereafter be established by local law. The 
local courts of the Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction 
over all causes of action in the Virgin Islands over which 
any court established by the Constitution and laws of the 
United States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. 
‘‘(b) PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE.—The rules gov-
erning the practice and procedure of the courts established 
by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and 
duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds, 
and the times and places of holding court shall be gov-
erned by local law or the rules promulgated by those 
courts.’’. 
(4) INCOME TAX MATTERS.—Section 22 of the 
Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1612) is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘SEC. 22. JURISDICTION OVER INCOME TAX MATTERS. 
‘‘The United States District Court for the District 
of the Virgin Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over 
all criminal and civil proceedings in the Virgin Islands 
with respect to the income tax laws applicable to the Vir-
gin Islands, except the ancillary laws relating to the in-
come tax enacted by the legislature of the Virgin Islands. 
Any act or failure to act with respect to the income tax 
laws applicable to the Virgin Islands which would con-
stitute a criminal offense described in chapter 75 of sub-
title F of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall con-
stitute an offense against the Government of the Virgin 
Islands and may be prosecuted in the name of the Govern-
ment of the Virgin Islands by the appropriate officers 
thereof in the United States District Court for the District 
of the Virgin Islands without the request or consent of 
the United States attorney for the Virgin Islands.’’. 
(5) APPELLATE JURISDICTION.—Section 23A of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1613a) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘District Court of the Vir-
gin Islands’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘United States District Court for the District 
of the Virgin Islands’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘pursu-
ant to section 24(a) of this Act: Provided, That
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no more than one of them may be a judge of 
a court established by local law.’’ and inserting 
‘‘pursuant to chapter 13 of title 28, United 
States Code, or a recalled senior judge of the 
former District Court of the Virgin Islands. 
The chief judge of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Third Circuit may assign to the 
appellate division a judge of a court of record 
of the Virgin Islands, except that no more than 
1 of the judges sitting in the appellate division 
at any session may be a judge of a court estab-
lished by local law.’’. 
(r) ADDITIONAL REFERENCES.—Any reference in 
any provision of law to the ‘‘District Court of the Virgin 
Islands’’ shall, on and after the effective date of this sec-
tion, be deemed to be a reference to the United States 
District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. 
(s) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall take effect at the end 
of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. Any complaint or proceeding pending 
in the District Court of the Virgin Islands on the effective 
date of this section may be pursued to final determination 
in the United States District Court for the District of the 
Virgin Islands, the United States Court of Appeals for the