Civic Duty Act

Bill: 114-s-2550
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2016-02-11
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Judicial procedure and administration

Members of Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-02-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Civic Duty Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991 to repeal the exemption of elected legislative branch officials from serving on grand or petit juries.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2550 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 11, 2016 Mrs. McCaskill (for herself, Mr. Flake , and Mr. Merkley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To repeal the jury duty exemption for elected officials of the legislative branch.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Civic Duty Act . 2. Repeal of jury duty exemption for legislative branch officials Section 310 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991 ( 2 U.S.C. 30a ) is repealed.