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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1587
To amend title 28, United States Code, and the Social Security Act with
respect to the establishment and jurisdiction of a United States Court
of Appeals for the Social Security Circuit.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 9, 1995
Mr. JACOBS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means,
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
A BILL
To amend title 28, United States Code, and the Social Secu-
rity Act with respect to the establishment and jurisdic-
tion of a United States Court of Appeals for the Social
Security Circuit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Social Security Court
of Appeals Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE
SOCIAL SECURITY CIRCUIT.
(a) NUMBER AND COMPOSITION OF CIRCUITS.—Sec-
tion 41 of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘thirteen’’ and inserting ‘‘four-
teen’’; and
(2) by adding at the end of the table contained
therein the following:
‘‘Social Security .................
All Federal judicial districts.’’.
(b) 
NUMBER
AND
RESIDENCE
OF
CIRCUIT
JUDGES.—(1) Section 44(a) of title 28, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end of the table con-
tained therein the following:
‘‘Social Security .................
5.’’.
(2) Section 44(c) of title 28, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘While in
active service, each circuit judge of the Social Security ju-
dicial circuit shall reside within fifty miles of the District
of Columbia.’’.
(c) TERMS OF COURT.—(1) Section 48(a) of title 28,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end of
the table contained therein the following:
‘‘Social Security .................
District of Columbia, and in any
other place listed above as the
court by rule directs.’’.
(2) Section 48(d) of title 28, United States Code, is
amended by inserting ‘‘and of the Court of Appeals for
the Social Security Circuit’’ after ‘‘Federal Circuit’’.
SEC. 3. JURISDICTION.
(a) FINAL DECISIONS OF DISTRICT COURTS.—Sec-
tion 1291 of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in the first sentence by inserting ‘‘and the
United States Court of Appeals for the Social Secu-
rity Circuit’’ after ‘‘Federal Circuit’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The ju-
risdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Social Security Circuit shall be limited to the ju-
risdiction described in subsections (b) and (e) of sec-
tion 1292 and section 1296 of this title.’’.
(b) INTERLOCUTORY DECISIONS.—Section 1292 of
title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) in the matter preceding
paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘and (d)’’ and inserting
‘‘, (d), and (e)’’;
(2) in subsection (e)—
(A) by redesignating such subsection as
subsection (f); and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (d)’’ and inserting
‘‘(d), or (e)’’; and
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(e) The United States Court of Appeals for the So-
cial Security Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction of an
appeal from an interlocutory order or decree described in
subsection (a) of this section in any case over which the
court would have jurisdiction of an appeal under section
1296 of this title.’’.
(c) 
CIRCUITS
IN
WHICH
DECISIONS
ARE
REVIEWABLE.—Section 1294 of title 28, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘and 1295’’ and inserting
‘‘1292(e), 1295, and 1296’’.
(d) GENERAL JURISDICTION.—(1) Chapter 83 of title
28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:
‘‘§ 1296. Jurisdiction of the United States Court of Ap-
peals for the Social Security Circuit
‘‘The United States Court of Appeals for the Social
Security Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction of an ap-
peal from a final decision of a district court of the United
States, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of
the Virgin Islands, or the District Court for the Northern
Mariana Islands, on a determination of the Commissioner
of Social Security under title II or XVI of the Social Secu-
(c) COURT ACCOMMODATIONS.—Section 462(d) of
title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘,
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Social Se-
curity Circuit,’’ after ‘‘Federal Circuit’’.
(d) TRANSMISSION OF PETITIONS.—(1) Section 520
of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(A) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘Claims Court
or in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit’’ and inserting ‘‘Court of Federal
Claims, in the United States Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, or in the United States Court
of Appeals for the Social Security Circuit’’; and
(B) by amending the section heading to read as
follows:
‘‘§ 520. Transmission of petitions in United States
Court of Federal Claims, in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, or in the United States Court of
Appeals for the Social Security Circuit;
statement furnished by departments’’.
(2) The item relating to section 520 in the table of
sections at the beginning of chapter 31 of title 28, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘520. Transmission of petitions in United States Court of Federal Claims, in
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, or
in the United States Court of Appeals for the Social Security
Circuit; statement furnished by departments.’’.
(e) BUDGET ESTIMATES.—Section 605 of title 28,
United States Code, is amended in the second undesig-
nated paragraph—
(1) by striking ‘‘such court and’’ and inserting
‘‘such court,’’; and
(2) by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ‘‘, and the estimate with respect to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Social Secu-
rity Circuit shall be approved by such court’’.
SEC. 5. OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) REVIEW OF AGENCY ORDERS.—Section 2342 of
title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘and
the United States Court of Appeals for the Social Security
Circuit’’ after ‘‘Federal Circuit’’.
(b) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.—Section 7482(a)(1)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C.
7482(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘and the United
States Court of Appeals for the Social Security Circuit’’
after ‘‘Federal Circuit’’.
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—This Act and the amendments
made by this Act shall take effect 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by this
Act shall apply with respect to any appeal of an interlocu-
tory order or of a decision of a district court that is filed
on or after the effective date of this Act.
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