Bill Text: PA HB1068 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for compensation and expenses of witnesses.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1068 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1068-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1159
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1068 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY CUTLER, BOYD, CLYMER, DENLINGER, FARRY, GEIST, GINGRICH, HENNESSEY, HESS, METZGAR, MILLER, MURT, PEIFER AND QUINN, MARCH 15, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 15, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
compensation and expenses of witnesses.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5903(b) and (c) of Title 42 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 5903. Compensation and expenses of witnesses.
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(b) Compensation.--Every witness, except a salaried police
officer attending a coroner's inquest during working hours,
shall be paid at the rate of [$5] $10 per day during the
necessary period of attendance. A witness under the act of March
30, 1937 (P.L.115, No.40), known as ["]The First Class City
Permanent Registration Act["], shall be paid at the rate of $20
per day.
(c) Travel.--Every witness, except a salaried police officer
attending a coroner's inquest during working hours, shall be
paid mileage at the rate [of 7¢] equal to the highest rate
allowed by the Internal Revenue Service for each mile circular
actually and necessarily travelled between the place named in
the subpoena and the place of residence of the witness.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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