Assembly Bill A6999

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases the allowances provided to trial and grand jurors

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A6999 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §521, Judy L

2023-A6999 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the allowances provided to trial and grand jurors to $60 per day for the first ten days and $100 per day every day thereafter of physical attendance.

2023-A6999 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6999
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to increasing the allow-
   ances provided to trial and grand jurors
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  (a)  of section 521 of the judiciary law, as
 amended by chapter 302 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (a)  Except  as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, trial and
 grand jurors in each court of the unified court system shall be entitled
 to an allowance equal to the sum of [forty] SIXTY dollars  per  day  for
 THE FIRST TEN DAYS AND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR each and every day THERE-
 AFTER  of physical attendance wherein the court convenes, except that no
 person who is employed shall be entitled to receive such  allowance  if,
 pursuant  to  section  five hundred nineteen of this article, his or her
 employer is prohibited from withholding [the first forty  dollars]  SUCH
 APPLICABLE  AMOUNT of wages of such person during such APPLICABLE period
 and such person's daily wages  equal  or  exceed  [forty  dollars]  SUCH
 APPLICABLE  AMOUNTS.   If such person's daily wages are less than [forty
 dollars] THE APPLICABLE AMOUNT, he or she shall be entitled  to  receive
 an  allowance  hereunder equal to the difference between [forty dollars]
 SUCH AMOUNT and the amount of his or her  daily  wages.  Such  fees  and
 those  expenses  actually and necessarily incurred in providing food and
 lodging for jurors shall be a state charge payable out of  funds  appro-
 priated to the office of court administration for that purpose.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11187-01-3

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