The Senate is currently considering S.1932, subtitled, "An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 202(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006." The legislation has been approved by the House of Representatives. If passed and signed by President Bush, the bill would increase the number of bankruptcy judges in some districts and dived the Ninth Judicial Circuit. ? 5301, et seq., increases the number of bankruptcy judges in some districts and authorizes temporary judgeships in others.The Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, Eastern District of California, Southern District of Georgia Eastern District of Kentucky, the District of Maryland, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Western District of Tennessee, the Eastern District of Texas and the District of Utah would each receive one new permanent judge. The Middle District of Florida and the Northern District of Georgia would each receive two new judges, and the Eastern of District of Michigan would receive three. ? 5401, et seq., would divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit and create a new Twelfth Judicial Circuit. If the law is passed and signed by the president, the Ninth Circuit would contain California, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Twelfth Circuit would contain Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. The Twelfth Circuit would maintain locations in Las Vegas, Missoula, Phoenix, Portland and Seattle. The full bill status and other information can be found here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.01932: Mac