Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 2 — Organization of Congress
§ 30a. Jury duty exemption of elected officials of legislative branch
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State or local law, no elected official of the legislative branch of the United States Government shall be required to serve on a grand or petit jury, convened by any Federal, State or local court, whether such service is requested by judicial summons or by some other means of compulsion.
“Elected official of the legislative branch” shall mean each Member of the United States House of Representatives, the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, the American Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and each United States Senator.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991
Pub. L. 101–520 title III § 310 · 104 Stat. 2254
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 30a
(Pub. L. 101–520, title III, § 310, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2278.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–520, title III, § 310, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2278.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 310. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State or local law, no elected official of the legislative branch of the United States Government shall be required to serve on a grand or petit jury, convened by any Federal, State or local court, whether such service is requested by judicial summons or by some other means of compulsion. (b) “Elected official of the legislative branch” shall mean each Member of the United States House of Representatives, the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, the American Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and each United States Senator.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991.