LACA

Local Access to Courts Act or LACA

This bill adds College Station to the list of places where court must be held in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas.

Additionally, the bill adds El Centro to the list of places where court must be held in the Southern District of California.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 625 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 625

To clarify where court may be held for certain district courts in Texas 
                            and California.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2025

 Mr. McCaul (for himself and Mr. Ruiz) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify where court may be held for certain district courts in Texas 
                            and California.

    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 ``Local Access to Courts Act'' or 
``LACA''.

SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF TEXAS DISTRICT COURTS.

    Section 124(b)(2) of title 28, United States Code, is amended, in 
the matter preceding paragraph (3), by inserting ``and College 
Station'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 3. ORGANIZATION OF CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COURTS.

    Section 84(d) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``and El Centro'' after ``at San Diego''.
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