Bill Text: HI SB1346 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
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-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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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 by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Each juror or prospective juror shall be paid
[$30] $50 for each day of actual 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."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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:
Judiciary; Juror Compensation
Description:
Increases compensation for a juror or a prospective juror from $30 to $50 for each day of attendance at court. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
