[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4496 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4496

     To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for certain 
   transportation and subsistence in cases where district courts are 
     holding special sessions as a result of emergency conditions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2005

    Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself and Mr. Conyers) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for certain 
   transportation and subsistence in cases where district courts are 
     holding special sessions as a result of emergency conditions.

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

SECTION 1. TRANSPORTATION AND SUBSISTENCE FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS OF 
              DISTRICT COURTS.

    (a) Transportation and Subsistence.--Section 141(b) of title 28, 
United States Code, as added by section 2(b) of Public Law 109-63, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(5) If a district court issues an order exercising its authority 
under paragraph (1), the court shall direct the United States marshal 
of the district where the court is meeting to furnish transportation 
and subsistence to the same extent as that provided in sections 4282 
and 4285 of title 18.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out paragraph (5) 
of section 141(b) of title 28, United States Code, as added by 
subsection (a) of this section.
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