Title: Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act of 2017
Policy area: Law

Summary:
Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act of 2017
This bill converts certain temporary U.S. district court judgeships to permanent judgeships in specified U.S. judicial districts in Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1302 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1302

  To provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships to permanent 
                  judgeships, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2017

    Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Udall, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. 
Roberts, and Mr. Nelson) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships to permanent 
                  judgeships, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DISTRICT JUDGES FOR THE DISTRICT COURTS.

    (a) In General.--The existing judgeships for the district of Kansas 
and the eastern district of Missouri authorized by section 203(c) of 
the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-650; 28 U.S.C. 
133 note) and the existing judgeships for the eastern district of 
Texas, the district of Arizona, the central district of California, the 
southern district of Florida, the western district of North Carolina, 
and the district of New Mexico authorized by section 312(c) of the 21st 
Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Public 
Law 107-273, 28 U.S.C. 133 note), as of the effective date of this Act, 
shall be authorized under section 133 of title 28, United States Code, 
and the incumbents in those offices shall hold the office under section 
133 of title 28, United States Code, as amended by this Act.
    (b) Tables.--In order that the table contained in section 133(a) of 
title 28, United States Code, will, with respect to each judicial 
district, reflect the changes in the total number of permanent district 
judgeships authorized as a result of subsection (a)--
            (1) the item relating to Arizona is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``Arizona............................  13'';
 

            (2) the item relating to California is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``California:
  Northern.............................  14
  Eastern..............................  6
  Central..............................  28
  Southern.............................  13'';
 

            (3) the item relating to Florida is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``Florida:
  Northern.............................  4
  Middle...............................  15
  Southern.............................  18'';
 

            (4) the item relating to Kansas is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``Kansas.............................  6'';
 

            (5) the item relating to Missouri is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``Missouri:
  Eastern..............................  7
  Western..............................  5
  Eastern and Western..................  2'';
 

            (6) the item relating to New Mexico is amended to read as 
        follows:


  ``New Mexico.........................  7'';
 

            (7) the item relating to North Carolina is amended to read 
        as follows:


  ``North Carolina:
  Eastern..............................  4
  Middle...............................  4
  Western..............................  5'';
 

        and
            (8) by striking the item relating to Texas and inserting 
        the following:


  ``Texas:
  Northern.............................  12
  Southern.............................  19
  Eastern..............................  8
  Western..............................  13''.
 

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
the date of enactment of this Act.
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