Bill Text: HI SB105 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Jury Duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-03-20 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Yamane excused (2). [SB105 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB105-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO JURY DUTY.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 612-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending its title and subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
"§612-8 Pay of jurors; [mileage fee; bus fare;]
transportation costs; parking
violations exemption. (a) Each juror or prospective juror shall be paid
$30 for each day of actual attendance at court.
In addition, each juror or prospective juror shall be [paid the
higher of either:] reimbursed for reasonable transportation costs in
going to and from court at the following rates:
(1) 33 cents for each mile actually and
necessarily traveled [in going to and from court; or];
(2) The cost of [an] adult bus fare [to
and from the court.], rail fare, or bicycle rental; or
(3) The cost of taxi or other hired car service fare, up to a maximum of one hundred dollars per one-way segment going to or from court; provided that a receipt for the taxi or other hired car service fare is submitted prior to reimbursement.
A person who appears at the time for which that
person is summoned to court for jury duty may be allowed the [mileage fee or
bus fare] transportation reimbursement although the person, upon
that person's request, is subsequently excused or exempted from jury service.
(b) In the discretion of the court, any juror who incurs additional expenses for transportation, board, and lodging as a result of the distance the juror resides from the location of the court, may be reimbursed for actual expenses."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION
3. This Act shall take effect on July 1,
2050.
Report Title:
Courts; Pay of Jurors; Transportation Costs
Description:
Clarifies that jurors are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable transportation costs to and from the court. Includes rail fare, bicycle rental, or taxi costs or other hired car service up to a specified maximum amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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