A bill to provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships for the districts of Hawaii and Kansas to permanent judgeships.

Bill: 113-s-1868
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2013-12-19
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts

Hawaii

Judges

Kansas
Latest action: action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-12-19
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Converts to permanent judgeships an existing temporary judgeship for the district of Hawaii and an existing temporary judgeship for the district of Kansas.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1868 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 19, 2013 Ms. Hirono (for herself, Mr. Roberts , Mr. Schatz , and Mr. Moran ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships for the districts of Hawaii and Kansas to permanent judgeships.

1. Conversion of temporary judgeships to permanent judgeships for the districts of Hawaii and Kansas (a) In general The existing judgeship for the district of Hawaii and the existing judgeship for the district of Kansas authorized by section 203(c) of the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 (28 U.S.C. 133 note; Public Law 101–650 ; 104 Stat. 5089) shall, as of the date of enactment of this Act, be authorized under section 133 of title 28, United States Code, and the incumbent in each such office 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 reflect the change in the total number of permanent district judgeships authorized as a result of subsection (a) of this section— (1) the item relating to Hawaii is amended to read as follows: Hawaii 4 ; and (2) the item relating to Kansas is amended to read as follows: Kansas 6 .