[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3942 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3942

  To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit the exclusion of 
  individuals from service on a Federal jury on account of disability.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 29, 2022

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Casey, Ms. Smith, 
Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Warren, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Padilla) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit the exclusion of 
  individuals from service on a Federal jury on account of disability.

    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 ``Disabled Jurors Nondiscrimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION FROM FEDERAL JURIES ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY.

    (a) Discrimination Prohibited.--Section 1862 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``disability,'' after ``origin,''.
    (b) Qualifications for Jury Service.--Section 1865 of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) No person may be disqualified from serving on grand and petit 
juries in the district court under paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection 
(b) on account of disability.''.
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