{"format":1,"id":"118-s-4199","congress":118,"number":"S. 4199","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","official_title":"A bill to authorize additional district judges for the district courts and convert temporary judgeships.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A bill to authorize additional district judges for the district courts and convert temporary judgeships."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","title":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","title":"JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate","title":"JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate","title":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024"}],"outcome":"vetoed","law_number":null,"introduced":"2024-04-19","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-12-12","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h501","question":"On Passage","title":"JUDGES Act","result":"Passed","yea":236,"nay":173,"present":0,"not_voting":22,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll501.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2024-08-01","vote":null,"how":"unanimous_consent","words":"Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5750-5753; text: CR S5750-5752)"}},"president":{"status":"vetoed","date":"2024-12-23"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Veto message received in Senate. Ordered held at the desk.","date":"2025-01-03"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-12-12","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024 or the JUDGES Act of 2024"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill creates 63 new permanent U.S. district court judgeships over a 10-year period and 3 temporary U.S. district court judgeships in 2025. The President must appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, additional judges for specified judicial districts."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill creates 63 additional permanent judgeships, which are added every two years from 2025 through 2035. The state and the total number of judgeships added over the 10-year period for the state are as follows:"},{"k":"li","t":"Arizona (2),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"California (21),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Colorado (2),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Delaware (2),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Florida (9),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Georgia (2),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Idaho (1),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Indiana (1),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Iowa (1),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Nebraska (1),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"New Jersey (3),","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"New York (5), and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"Texas (13).","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, in 2025, the bill creates three temporary judgeships in Oklahoma."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill adds locations for where district courts must be held in certain states. Specifically, the bill requires the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to be additionally held in El Centro, California; the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division) to be additionally held in College Station, Texas; and the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (Central Division) to be additionally held in Moab and Monticello, Utah."},{"k":"p","t":"The Government Accountability Office must submit reports to Congress on judicial caseloads and detention space."},{"k":"p","t":"The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts must make publicly accessible, and submit to Congress, a specified biennial report on judgeship recommendations."}],"words":247},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Authorizes additional permanent and temporary U.S. district court judgeships in named judicial districts, with appropriations authorized to carry them out.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr#idc9b118d4-2eab-4066-8c7d-adbd02e8645b:~:text=3.%20Additional%20district%20judges%20for%20the%20district"}]},"core_areas":["Additional permanent district court judgeships taking effect from 2025 through 2035","Temporary district court judgeships in Oklahoma","Authorization of appropriations for the new judgeships","Government Accountability Office reports on judicial caseloads and detention space","Public release of the Judicial Conference judgeship recommendations report"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the President to appoint, with Senate advice and consent, additional district judges for named districts in six steps taking effect January 21 of 2025, 2027, 2029, 2031, 2033 and 2035, and amends the table of district judgeships in title 28, United States Code, to match.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr#idc9b118d4-2eab-4066-8c7d-adbd02e8645b:~:text=3.%20Additional%20district%20judges%20for%20the%20district"}},{"text":"Requires the President to appoint 2 additional district judges for the eastern district of Oklahoma and 1 for the northern district of Oklahoma, effective January 21, 2025, and provides that the first vacancy in each such office occurring 5 years or more after the confirmation date shall not be filled.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr#idc9b118d4-2eab-4066-8c7d-adbd02e8645b:~:text=3.%20Additional%20district%20judges%20for%20the%20district"}},{"text":"Authorizes appropriations of $12,965,330 for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026, rising to $61,122,270 for fiscal year 2035 and each year after, with each amount increased by a Consumer Price Index adjustment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr#idc9b118d4-2eab-4066-8c7d-adbd02e8645b:~:text=3.%20Additional%20district%20judges%20for%20the%20district"}},{"text":"Requires the Comptroller General to report within 2 years on the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' workload measures, non-case-related judge activities and senior judge policies, and to report separately on federal detention space needs.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 7","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr#ida0de277b4b1c46fda3b349c181496a52:~:text=7.%20GAO%20reports"}},{"text":"Requires the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to post the biennial report \"Article III Judgeship Recommendations of the Judicial Conference of the United States\" on its website free of charge and to submit copies to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 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States Code, is amended by inserting “and El Centro” after “at San Diego”."}]}],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4199/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-s-4199.png","v":"ea060c197405","alt":"Votes on Record. S. 4199, 118th Congress: Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act of 2024. House: 236 Yea, 173 Nay. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Vetoed, 23 Dec 2024."}}