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States Court of Federal Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund, 
as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 178(l), $4,200,000. 
UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out 
the provisions of chapter 58 of title 28, United States 
Code, $16,225,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 is au-
thorized for official reception and representation expenses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
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 appropria-
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the Judi-
ciary in this Act may be transferred between such appro-
priations, but no such appropriation, except ‘‘Courts of 
Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services, De-
fender Services’’ and ‘‘Courts of Appeals, District Courts, 
and Other Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commis-
sioners’’, 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 
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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. Within 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrative Office of the U.S. 
Courts shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
a comprehensive financial plan for the Judiciary allocating 
all sources of available funds including appropriations, fee 
collections, and carryover balances, to include a separate 
and detailed plan for the Judiciary Information Tech-
nology Fund. 
SEC. 305. Section 3314(a) of title 40, United States 
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Federal’’ for ‘‘exec-
utive’’ each place it appears. 
SEC. 306. 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 
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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 De-
partment of Homeland Security to provide, except for the 
services specified in 40 U.S.C. 1315(b)(2)(E). For build-
ing-specific security services at these courthouses, the Di-
rector of the Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts shall reimburse the United States Marshals Service 
rather than the Department of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 307. (a). IN GENERAL.—Section 604(a)(5) of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘magistrate judges appointed under section 631 of this 
title,’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘, United States mag-
istrate judges, bankruptcy judges appointed under chapter 
6 of this title, judges of the District Court of Guam, 
judges of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, judges of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 
bankruptcy judges and magistrate judges retired under 
section 377 of this title, and judges retired under section 
373 of this title, who are’’. 
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—For purposes of construing 
and applying chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code, 
including any adjustment of insurance rates by regulation 
or otherwise, the following categories of judicial officers 
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shall be deemed to be judges of the United States as de-
scribed under section 8701 of title 5, United States Code: 
(1) United States magistrate judges. 
(2) Bankruptcy judges appointed under chapter 
6 of title 28, United States Code. 
(3) Judges of the District Court of Guam, 
judges of the District Court for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, and judges of the District Court of the 
Virgin Islands. 
(4) Bankruptcy judges and magistrate judges 
retired under section 377 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
(5) Judges retired under section 373 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
(c) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—Subsection (b) and the 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with re-
spect to any payment made on or after the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after the 
date of the enactment of Public Law 110–177. 
SEC. 308. Subsection (c) of section 407 of the Trans-
portation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, 
the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (division A, title IV, 
of Public Law 109–115; 119 Stat. 2396, 2471) is re-
pealed. 
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SEC. 309. Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improve-
ments Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–650; 28 U.S.C. 133 
note), is amended— 
(1) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘the 
district of Hawaii,’’ after ‘‘Pennsylvania,’’; 
(2) in the third sentence (relating to the Dis-
trict of Kansas), by striking ‘‘17 years’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘18 years’’; 
(3) in the sixth sentence (relating to the North-
ern District of Ohio), by striking ‘‘17 years’’ and in-
serting ‘‘18 years’’. 
(4) by inserting ‘‘The first vacancy in the office 
of the district judge in the district of Hawaii occur-
ring 15 years or more after the confirmation date of 
the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship cre-
ated under this subsection shall not be filled.’’ after 
the sixth sentence. 
SEC. 310. Pursuant to section 140 of Public Law 97– 
92, and from funds appropriated in this Act, Justices and 
judges of the United States are authorized during fiscal 
year 2009, to receive a salary adjustment in accordance 
with 28 U.S.C. 461. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Judiciary Appropria-
tions Act, 2009’’. 
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