Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 6
- Latest action
- Oct 21, 2025
What it does
The Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act would reorganize the Ninth Circuit by splitting it into two circuits: a new Ninth Circuit covering California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and a newly created Twelfth Circuit covering Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The bill adds two new circuit judgeships for the Ninth Circuit, increases the total number of authorized circuit judges for the Ninth and Twelfth Circuits, designates court locations and headquarters, reassigns existing judges based on their duty stations, and provides for the phased addition of 11 new district judgeships across multiple states between 2025 and 2031, with specific…
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