[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1868 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1868

To provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships for the districts 
             of Hawaii and Kansas to permanent judgeships.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2013

   Ms. Hirono (for herself, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Schatz, and Mr. Moran) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the conversion of temporary judgeships for the districts 
             of Hawaii and Kansas to permanent judgeships.

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

SECTION 1. CONVERSION OF TEMPORARY JUDGESHIPS TO PERMANENT JUDGESHIPS 
              FOR THE DISTRICTS OF HAWAII AND KANSAS.

    (a) In General.--The existing judgeship for the district of Hawaii 
and the existing judgeship for the district of Kansas authorized by 
section 203(c) of the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 (28 U.S.C. 133 
note; Public Law 101-650; 104 Stat. 5089) shall, as of the date of 
enactment of this Act, be authorized under section 133 of title 28, 
United States Code, and the incumbent in each such office shall hold 
the office under section 133 of title 28, United States Code, as 
amended by this Act.
    (b) Tables.--In order that the table contained in section 133(a) of 
title 28, United States Code, will reflect the change in the total 
number of permanent district judgeships authorized as a result of 
subsection (a) of this section--
            (1) the item relating to Hawaii is amended to read as 
        follows:


``Hawaii........................................................    4'';
 

        and
            (2) the item relating to Kansas is amended to read as 
        follows:


``Kansas........................................................    6''.
 

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