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 102 STAT. 4664 28 USC 651 note.

PUBLIC LAW 100-702—NOV. 19, 1988

SEC. 905. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, and for each of the succeeding 4 fiscal years, to the judicial branch such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of chapter 44, as added by section 901 of this Act. Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to Federal judicial districts and the Federal Judicial Center. The funds so appropriated are authorized to remain available until expended, except that such funds may not be expended for the arbitration of actions referred to arbitration after the date of repeal set forth in section 906 of this Act. 28 USC 651 note.

SEC. 906. REPEAL.

Effective 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, chapter 44, as added by section 901 of this Act, and the item relating to that chapter in the table of chapters at the beginning of part III of such title, are repealed, except that the provisions of that chapter shall continue to apply through final disposition of all actions in which referral to arbitration was made before the date of repeal. SEC. 907. EFFECTIVE DATE.

This title and the amendments made by this title shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

TITLE X—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. 1001. DIVISIONAL VENUE IN CIVIL CASES.

28 USC 1393 note.

(a) REPEAL.—Section 1393, relating to divisional venue in civil cases, and the item relating to section 1393 in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 87, are repealed. O> EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section take t) effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 1002. REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS. (a) JUDGMENTS OF DISTRICT COURTS AND COURT OF INTERNATIONAL

TRADE.—Section 1963 is amended by amending the first sentence to read as follows: "A judgment in an action for the recovery of money or property entered in any district court or in the Court of International Trade may be registered by filing a certified copy of such judgment in any other district or, with respect to the Court of International Trade, in any judicial district, when the judgment has become final by appeal or expiration of the time for appeal or when ordered by the court that entered the judgment for good cause shown.". (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) The section caption for section

1963 is amended to read as follows: "§ 1963. Registration of judgments of the district courts and the Court of International Trade". (2) Section 1963A is repealed. (3)(A) The item relating tp section 1963 in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 125 is amended to read as follows: "1963. Registration of judgments of the district courts and the Court of International Trade.".

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