[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2336 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 S. 2336

    To amend chapter 5 of title 28, United States Code, to transfer 
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from the Eastern Judicial District of 
     Pennsylvania to the Middle Judicial District of Pennsylvania.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend chapter 5 of title 28, United States Code, to transfer 
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from the Eastern Judicial District of 
     Pennsylvania to the Middle Judicial District of Pennsylvania.

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

SECTION 1. TRANSFER OF COUNTY.

    Section 118 of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``Philadelphia, and 
        Schuylkill'' and inserting ``and Philadelphia''; and
            (2) in subsection (b) by inserting ``Schuylkill,'' after 
        ``Potter,''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Pending Cases Not Affected.--This Act and the amendments made 
by this Act shall not affect any action commenced before the effective 
date of this Act and pending on such date in the United States District 
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
    (c) Juries Not Affected.--This Act and the amendments made by this 
Act shall not affect the composition, or preclude the service, of any 
grand or petit jury summoned, impaneled, or actually serving on the 
effective date of this Act.
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