Bill Text: NY A06999 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A06999 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06999-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6999

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
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        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:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  (a)  of section 521 of the judiciary law, as
     2  amended by chapter 302 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (a)  Except  as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, trial and
     5  grand jurors in each court of the unified court system shall be entitled
     6  to an allowance equal to the sum of [forty] sixty dollars  per  day  for
     7  the first ten days and one hundred dollars for each and every day there-
     8  after  of physical attendance wherein the court convenes, except that no
     9  person who is employed shall be entitled to receive such  allowance  if,
    10  pursuant  to  section  five hundred nineteen of this article, his or her
    11  employer is prohibited from withholding [the first forty  dollars]  such
    12  applicable  amount of wages of such person during such applicable period
    13  and such person's daily wages  equal  or  exceed  [forty  dollars]  such
    14  applicable  amounts.   If such person's daily wages are less than [forty
    15  dollars] the applicable amount, he or she shall be entitled  to  receive
    16  an  allowance  hereunder equal to the difference between [forty dollars]
    17  such amount and the amount of his or her  daily  wages.  Such  fees  and
    18  those  expenses  actually and necessarily incurred in providing food and
    19  lodging for jurors shall be a state charge payable out of  funds  appro-
    20  priated to the office of court administration for that purpose.
    21    § 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