[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 531 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 531

 To authorize a circuit judge who has taken part in an in banc hearing 
 of a case to continue to participate in that case after taking senior 
                    status, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 6), 1995

 Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Simon) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize a circuit judge who has taken part in an in banc hearing 
 of a case to continue to participate in that case after taking senior 
                    status, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.

    The last sentence of section 46(c) of title 28, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``as a member'' and all that follows through the 
period and inserting the following: ``as a member of an in banc court--
            ``(1) reviewing a decision of a panel of which such judge 
        was a member; or
            ``(2) continuing to participate in the decision of a case 
        or controversy that was heard or reheard by the court in banc 
        at a time when such judge was in regular active service.''.
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