[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1506 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1506

    To amend title 28, United States Code, to modify the residency 
  requirement for United States attorneys and assistant United States 
                               attorneys.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 1993

  Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 28, United States Code, to modify the residency 
  requirement for United States attorneys and assistant United States 
                               attorneys.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 545(a) of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Each United States attorney shall reside in the district for 
which he or she is appointed, except that the United States attorney of 
the District of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, or the 
Eastern District of New York may reside within 50 miles of the district 
for which he or she is appointed. Each assistant United States attorney 
shall reside in the district for which he or she is appointed or within 
50 miles of the district. The provisions of this subsection shall not 
apply to any United States attorney or assistant United States attorney 
appointed for the Northern Mariana Islands who at the same time is 
serving in the same capacity in another district.''.

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