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        <dc:title>Improving Access to Our Courts Act</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 118–73</citableAs>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide an additional place for holding court for the Pecos Division of the Western District of Texas, and for other purposes.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote role="uscRef" style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t28/s1">28 U.S.C. 1 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading>
            <content class="block" style="-uslm-dtd:text">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Improving Access to Our Courts Act</shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ADDITIONAL PLACES FOR HOLDING COURT. </heading>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Pecos Division of the Western District of Texas.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 124(d)(6) of title 28, United States Code, is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (7), by inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">and Alpine</quotedText>” after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Pecos</quotedText>”.</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Western District of Washington.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 128(b) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Mount Vernon,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Tacoma,</quotedText>”.</content>
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