H.R. 1626 would make technical amendments to laws containing time periods affecting judicial proceedings.
Detailed Summary
<b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b>
Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act of 2009 - Amends federal bankruptcy, criminal, and civil law, as well as the Classified Information Procedures Act and the Controlled Substances Act, to extend from 5 to 7 days, and from 10 to 14 days, counting holidays and weekends, specified deadlines affecting court proceedings to harmonize them with recent amendments to the federal time-computation rules intended to provide predictability and uniformity to the current process of calculating court deadlines.
Status of the Legislation
Latest Major Action: 5/7/2009: Signed by President.
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