Bill Text: HI SB1346 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Juror Compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-23 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Kitagawa, Kong excused (2). [SB1346 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB1346-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to juror compensation.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 612-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§612-8 Pay of jurors; mileage fee; bus fare; parking violations exemption. (a) Each juror or prospective juror shall be paid $30 for each day of actual attendance at court.
(b) After five consecutive days of service, each juror or prospective juror shall be paid $50 for each day of attendance at court. In addition, each juror or prospective juror shall be paid the higher of either:
(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.
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 although the person, upon that person's request, is subsequently excused or exempted from jury service.
[(b)] (c) In the discretion of the court, any juror who
incurs 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.
[(c)] (d) All jurors or prospective jurors shall be
exempt from any prosecution, penalty, or fine as a result of a parking
violation committed in connection with the juror or prospective juror appearing
at court for jury duty; provided that the juror or prospective juror shall
present any parking citation received during this time to the court clerk of
the circuit court or district court or the jury pool clerk, as appropriate, who
shall verify that the juror or prospective juror was serving on jury duty or
appearing in court in response to a summons for jury duty at the time the
citation was received. The clerk of the
circuit court or district court or the jury pool clerk, as appropriate, shall
keep an attendance roll in which shall be entered each juror's or prospective
juror's name, each date the juror or prospective juror was summoned and
appeared for jury duty, and the date the juror or prospective juror was discharged
from service. The supreme court shall
adopt rules necessary to effect this section."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Judiciary; Juror Compensation
Description:
Increases compensation for a juror or a prospective juror from $30 to $50 for each day of attendance at court after serving five consecutive days.
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