R48077 — Judiciary Appropriations, FY2024

Funds for the judicial branch are included annually in the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill. The bill provides funding for the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. Court of International Trade; U.S. courts of appeals and district courts; the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; the Federal Judicial Center; the U.S. Sentencing Commission; the federal defender organizations that provide legal representation to defendants financially unable to retain counsel in federal criminal proceedings; security and protective services for courthouses, judicial officers, and judicial employees; and fees and allowances paid to jurors. The federal judiciary’s FY2024 budget request was submitted to Congress on March 9, 2023. By law, the President includes without change the judiciary’s appropriations request in the annual budget submission to Congress. The judiciary requested $9.14 billion in discretionary funds for FY2024, an 8.0% increase over the FY2023 enacted level of $8.46 billion in such funds. The judiciary updated its FY2024 request to Congress on November 8, 2023. The revised request was for $8.95 billion in discretionary funds, a 5.8% increase over the FY2023 enacted level. The FY2024 amounts reported and discussed throughout this report reflect the reestimated discretionary funding request submitted by the judiciary on November 8, 2023. The judiciary’s FY2024 budget request also included $796.1 million in mandatory funds to pay the salaries and benefits of certain types of federal judges and to provide for judicial retirement accounts (this amount was not affected by the updated discretionary funding request submitted in November 2023). The House Appropriations Committee held a markup (H.R. 4664) on July 13, 2023, and recommended the judiciary receive $8.68 billion in discretionary funds. The Senate Appropriations Committee held a markup (S. 2443) on July 13, 2023, and recommended the judiciary receive $8.57 billion in discretionary funds. The FSGG appropriations bill was not enacted prior to the beginning of FY2024 on October 1, 2023. Subsequently, the judiciary was funded through November 17, 2023, by the FY2024 Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 118-15). The judiciary was additionally funded through February 2, 2024, by the FY2024 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 118-22), through March 8, 2024, by the FY2024 Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 118-35), and through March 22, 2024, by the FY2024 Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act (P.L. 118-40). Regular appropriations for FY2024 were enacted by the FY2024 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 118-47, March 23, 2024). In recent years, appropriations for the judiciary have comprised 0.1% to 0.2% of the federal government’s total budget authority.

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• HR 4664 — Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending Septe · 118th Cong
• S 2443 — Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 · 118th Cong
• S 2309 — Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2024 · 118th Cong