Bill Details
HR.1727 - 119th Congress
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2025-02-27 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-27
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This bill would add more federal district judges in Colorado and Idaho to help handle court workloads. It would let the President appoint two additional judges for Colorado and one additional judge for Idaho, with Senate approval. The bill also updates federal law to show the new total number of judges in each state and makes a small change to Colorado’s court districts by adding Fort Collins to the list of places covered.
- Colorado would get 2 new district judges, bringing its total to 9.
- Idaho would get 1 new district judge, bringing its total to 3.
- The bill changes federal court law to match these new judge counts.
- It also updates the Colorado court district list to include Fort Collins.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1727 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1727
To authorize additional district judgeships for the districts of
Colorado and Idaho.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2025
Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. Fulcher) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To authorize additional district judgeships for the districts of
Colorado and Idaho.
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 ``Rocky Mountain Judgeship Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGESHIPS FOR THE DISTRICTS OF COLORADO
AND IDAHO.
(a) Colorado.--The President shall appoint, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, 2 additional district judges for the
district of Colorado.
(b) Idaho.--The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, 1 additional district judges for the district of
Idaho.
(c) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table in section
133(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking the item relating to Colorado and inserting
the following:
``Colorado................................................. 9''; and
(2) by striking the item relating to Idaho and inserting
the following:
``Idaho.................................................... 3''.
SEC. 3. COLORADO.
Section 85 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking
``and Sterling'' and inserting ``Sterling, and Fort Collins''.
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