[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4710 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4710

   To amend title 28, United States Code, to improve the delivery of 
   Federal judicial services by requiring the equitable and rational 
 calculation of rent to be paid to the General Services Administration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2006

 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself and Mr. Smith of Texas) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 28, United States Code, to improve the delivery of 
   Federal judicial services by requiring the equitable and rational 
 calculation of rent to be paid to the General Services Administration.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Judiciary Rent Reform Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. CALCULATION OF REAL PROPERTY RENT CHARGED TO THE JUDICIARY.

    Section 462 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g)(1) The Administrator of General Services shall establish rent 
charges for accommodations provided by the General Services 
Administration (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as `GSA') in 
federally-owned space that do not exceed the GSA's actual costs of 
operating and maintaining such accommodations. GSA shall not assess the 
judiciary any amount for shell rent, tenant improvements, parking rent, 
or real estate taxes for federally-owned space assigned to the 
judiciary.
    ``(2) The Administrator of General Services shall establish rent 
charges for accommodations provided to the judiciary in leased space 
that do not exceed the rental and service contract amounts, including 
GSA's actual costs of procuring and servicing the leases.
    ``(3) GSA administrative fees assessed to the judiciary shall be on 
a cost-only basis, without regard to whether the real property is 
federally-owned or leased.
    ``(4) The judiciary shall be responsible for providing funds to the 
GSA from judiciary appropriations to pay for new repair and alteration, 
tenant improvement, and construction projects performed by the GSA for 
judiciary accommodations, except for those projects for which the GSA 
has separately received appropriations.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect October 1, 2006.
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