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Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act

To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit the exclusion of individuals from service on a Federal jury on account of disability.

Introduced Jul 28, 2025

Latest action (Jul 28, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Law
Issues
Civil Rights

Summary
  • Prohibits exclusion of individuals from federal jury service based on disability or age.
  • Changes the disqualification standard from "infirmity" to "disability that cannot be reasonably accommodated" for jury service.
  • Provides that individuals with disabilities who would be qualified for jury service with reasonable accommodation cannot be disqualified based on their disability.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
12 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Edward J. Markey’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • WILMERHALE $29,800
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY $13,200
  • THE WONDERFUL COMPANY $13,200
  • BAD ROBOT $13,200
  • GOOGLE $12,850

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Edward J. Markey → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 28, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Jul 28, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 5096 — Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act · Introduced Sep 2, 2025 · Cong. 119 95%
  • S 2122 — Jury ACCESS Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 1537 — District of Columbia Superior Court Jury Duty for Seniors Opt Out Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 4061 — District of Columbia Local Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 466 — Fairness for Disabled Young Adults Act · Introduced Feb 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 60%
  • HR 7946 — Jury Duty Exemption for Breastfeeding Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 16, 2026 · Cong. 119 57%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jul 28, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 28, 2025

Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Fetterman, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Warren, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Welch, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Sanders) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit the exclusion of individuals from service on a Federal jury on account of disability.

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 “Disability and Age in Jury Service Nondiscrimination Act”.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION FROM FEDERAL JURIES ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY.

(a) Discrimination Prohibited.—Section 1862 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting “disability, age,” after “origin,”.

(b) Qualifications for Jury Service.—Section 1865 of title 28, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking “infirmity” and inserting “disability that cannot be reasonably accommodated”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

“(c) No person may be disqualified from serving on grand and petit juries in the district court under paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection

(b) on account of disability if the person would be qualified under such paragraph (2) or (3) by reasonable accommodation.”. <all>

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