Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5096 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5096

  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

                           September 2, 2025

  Ms. Simon (for herself, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. 
 Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Cleaver, 
 Mr. Min, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Huffman, and Ms. 
Kelly of Illinois) 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 striking ``infirmity'' 
        inserting ``disability that cannot be reasonably 
        accommodated''; 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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