Three additional judgeships authorized for the Eastern District, one additional for the Southern District, and one temporary judgeship authorized for the Northern District. The temporary position authorized for the Western District in 1984 was made permanent. (Statutory provision authorizing the temporary judgeship revised by 109 Stat. 635 and judgeship extended by 111 Stat. 1173.) 

Under the terms of the act, a new judge is to be appointed to any court from which an active judge "assumes the duties of a full-time office of Federal judicial administration." If the judge assuming such a position returns as an active judge of the court, the first vacancy occurring thereafter will not be filled. This act thus provided for the appointment of another judge to the Eastern District in 2021, when a sitting judge, Roslynn Mauskopf, became director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The temporary increase in the court's authorized membership expired in 2024.