S 3998 United States Senate · 118th Congress

Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024

The Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024 makes permanent 10 temporary federal district court judgeships in specific judicial districts, including Hawaii, Kansas, and multiple districts across Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas. It achieves this by amending federal law to treat these positions as permanent, so current judges in those roles will now hold their positions under permanent authority rather than temporary appointments. The bill also updates the official U.S. Code table listing authorized judgeships to reflect these new permanent numbers for each district. This directly affects the federal courts in the specified districts by ending the temporary status of these judgeships and providing long-term stability to their staffing.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2024

Committee Review

Apr 2024

Senate Passage

Apr 2024

House Passage

Dec 2024

Signed into Law

Dec 2024

Introduced Mar 20, 2024 Signed Dec 23, 2024

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What changed between versions

Engrossed in Senate → Enrolled Bill · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes were made between the Senate-engrossed version and the enrolled version of S 3998 (Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024). All changes are purely formatting and typographical, including reformatting of the judgeship tables from inline text to a multi-line layout and minor spacing adjustments around section numbers and punctuation.

TECHNICAL

Formatting changes only: table entries for district judgeships (Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas) were reformatted from inline text to a multi-line layout with each district name and number on separate lines. Spacing around section numbers, subsection letters, and punctuation was adjusted. No numerical values, legal language, or policy content changed.

Floor votes · House Dec 16, 2024

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Dec 23, 2024

Signed into law

Signed by President.

executive

Dec 16, 2024

Lower · Passed

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 390 - 0 (Roll no. 503). (text: CR H7172)

lower

Apr 20, 2024

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2928-2929; text: CR S2929)

upper

Apr 20, 2024

Upper · Passed

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.

upper

Apr 20, 2024

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.

upper

Mar 20, 2024

Committee

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

upper

Mar 20, 2024

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

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1 primary · 19 co-sponsors