[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3293 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3293

To amend title 28, United States Code, to realign divisions within two 
                          judicial districts.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 14, 2012

 Mrs. McCaskill (for herself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Cochran) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to realign divisions within two 
                          judicial districts.

    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 ``Divisional Realignment Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. REALIGNMENT WITHIN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI.

    Section 105(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``Iron,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Saint Genevieve,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by inserting ``Iron,'' after ``Dunklin,''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``Sainte Genevieve,'' after 
                ``Ripley,''.

SEC. 3. REALIGNMENT WITHIN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI.

    Section 104 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking 
subsection (a) and inserting the following:

                          ``Northern District

    ``(a) The Northern District comprises 3 divisions.
            ``(1) The Aberdeen Division comprises the counties of 
        Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, 
        Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, Tishomingo, Webster, and Winston.
            ``Court for the Aberdeen Division shall be held at 
        Aberdeen, Ackerman, and Corinth.
            ``(2) The Oxford Division comprises the counties of Benton, 
        Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, 
        Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, and 
        Yalobusha.
            ``Court for the Oxford Division shall be held at Oxford.
            ``(3) The Greenville Division comprises the counties of 
        Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Humphreys, Leflore, 
        Montgomery, Sunflower, and Washington.
            ``Court for the Greenville Division shall be held at 
        Clarksdale, Cleveland, and Greenville.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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