[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4205 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4205

  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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 1994

   Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Lewis of 
   Georgia, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Saxton, and Mr. Stark) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the District of 
                                Columbia

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                                 A BILL


 
  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.''.

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