Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act

Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act

This bill prohibits the exclusion of individuals from jury service on the basis of their disability or age.

Further, the bill prohibits the disqualification of individuals from jury service who fail to meet certain qualifications (e.g., adequate proficiency in English) on the basis of their disability or infirmity if reasonable accommodations can be made.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2442 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2442

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2023

 Ms. Porter (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Scanlon, and Ms. Schakowsky) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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 ``Disability and Age in Jury Service 
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, age,'' after 
``origin,''.
    (b) Qualifications for Jury Service.--Section 1865 of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(4), by inserting ``that cannot be 
        reasonably accommodated'' after ``infirmity''; and
            (2) 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, if the person would be qualified under 
such paragraph (2) or (3) by reasonable accommodation.''.
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