[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2292 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2292

    To provide relief for the Federal judiciary from excessive rent 
                                charges.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 15, 2006

  Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Chambliss, and 
Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide relief for the Federal judiciary from excessive rent 
                                charges.

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

SECTION 1. RELIEF FROM EXCESSIVE RENT CHARGES.

    Section 462 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g) Effective October 1, 2006, rent charges established by the 
Administrator of General Services for accommodations provided to the 
judicial branch shall not exceed the actual costs of operating and 
maintaining such accommodations by the General Services Administration, 
and no amounts for shell rent, capital costs, real estate taxes (except 
for taxes actually paid by the Administrator of General Services to 
lessors), or administrative fees shall be included in such rent 
charges. The judicial branch's repayment to the Administrator of 
General Services of the cost of repair and alteration projects 
performed by the General Services Administration on judicial branch 
accommodations after October 1, 2006, shall be recovered over time in a 
manner agreed upon by the Director of the Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts and the Administrator.''.
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