Bill Text: CA AB881 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Juror fees: pilot program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-29 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB881 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB881-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 18, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Ting |
February 14, 2023 |
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 240 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended to read:240.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 215, the(j)For the purposes of this section only, “justice partners” means the San Francisco Financial Justice Project within the Treasurer’s Office, the San
Francisco Public Defender’s Office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, and the San Francisco Bar Association.
(k)
(a)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the fee for jurors in the superior court, in civil and criminal cases, is not less than
fifteen dollars ($15) a day for each day’s attendance as a juror after the first day.
(2)The fee for jurors in the superior court in criminal cases is one hundred dollars ($100) a day for each day the juror is required to report for service as a trial juror if the trial juror’s household income for the past 12 months is less than 80 percent of the area median income of the county in which the superior court is located, and the trial juror meets one of the additional following criteria:
(A)The trial juror’s employer does not compensate for any trial jury service.
(B)The trial juror’s employer does not compensate for trial jury service for the estimated duration of the criminal jury trial.
(C)The trial juror is self-employed.
(D)The trial juror is unemployed.
(b)Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a juror who is employed by a federal, state, or local government entity, or by any other public entity as defined in Section 481.200, and who receives regular compensation and benefits while performing jury service, shall not be paid the fee described in subdivision (a).
(c)All jurors in the superior court, in civil and criminal cases, shall be reimbursed for mileage at the rate of thirty-four cents ($0.34) per mile for each mile
actually traveled in attending and returning from court as a juror after the first day.
(d)All jurors and prospective jurors who have been summoned shall be provided with access to existing public transit services at no cost utilizing one of the following options:
(1)Courts may partner with public transit operators in their county to create new programs or continue existing public transit programs that provide no-cost service for jurors and prospective jurors who have been summoned.
(2)A method of reimbursement determined by the court up to a daily maximum of twelve dollars ($12).
(e)Subdivision (d) does not apply to a court in an area where a public transit operator does not provide existing service that is reasonably available to the court
facility.
(f)In determining whether transit service is reasonably available to the court facility, the court shall consider factors that include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1)Proximity of transit service to the court location.
(2)Hours of operation of transit service in the vicinity of the court location.
(3)Frequency of operation of transit service in the vicinity of the court location.
(4)Availability of transit access to all areas of the court’s jurisdiction from which a potential juror may reside.
(g)Prior to determining that transit service is not reasonably available to the court facility, the
court shall contact the public transit operator to inquire whether new transit options may be implemented near the court.