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Committee reports several additional measures including court‑access and national fossil designations
Summary
The Judiciary Committee reported HR 625 (Local Access to Courts Act) to authorize additional locations for federal court sessions, and HR 9191 (National Fossil Act), a ceremonial designation naming the American mastodon and T. rex as national fossil symbols; both measures were advanced and ordered to be reported favorably after noncontroversial consideration.
The committee took up several shorter or narrowly framed bills and reported them favorably.
HR 625, the Local Access to Courts Act, was described by the gentleman from California (speaker 13) as authorizing additional locations for holding court in parts of the Southern Districts of Texas and California (College Station and El Centro) to reduce burdens on jurors and court users. Ranking members said the change would use existing facilities and the Administrative Office of the Courts had endorsed the proposal. The amendment in the nature of a substitute was adopted and the bill was ordered to be reported.
The committee also took up HR 9191, the National Fossil Act, a symbolic bill to designate the American mastodon as the national fossil mammal and Tyrannosaurus rex as the national fossil dinosaur. Members framed the bill as a bipartisan, educational recognition timed for the nation’s sesquicentennial anniversary; the committee adopted a short-title amendment and ordered the bill to be reported favorably.
Both measures were treated as noncontroversial in markup and were advanced with staff authorized to make technical and conforming changes. Members will have two days to submit views for each reported measure.
