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[H.R. 4205 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

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        H.R.4205

                       One Hundred Third Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-
                                  four


                                 An Act

  
 
  To amend title 11, D.C. Code, to clarify that blind individuals are 
eligible to


   serve as jurors in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF BLIND INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE 
AS JURORS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
    Section 11-1906(b), D.C. Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
    ``(4) An individual who is blind may not be disqualified from 
serving as a juror solely on the basis of blindness, but may be 
disqualified from serving as a juror in a particular case if the 
individual's blindness makes the individual incapable of rendering 
satisfactory jury service in that case.''.







                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.







                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.