[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4205 Received in Senate (RDS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4205


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 1994

                                Received

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                                 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.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 25, 1994.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.