Bill Text: HI HB878 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Exemptions From Jury Duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [HB878 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB878-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that due to the critical roles that physicians, members of the armed forces, police, firefighters, and emergency medical service members play in ensuring the safety of the public welfare in emergency situations, those individuals are currently exempt from jury duty pursuant to section 612-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes. The legislature also finds that, pursuant to chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Hawaii emergency management agency and the county emergency management agencies serve essential, critical, and unique roles and functions in providing emergency management services in the State. The legislature further finds that it is important to eliminate any hindrances that active members of those agencies may face in serving in their roles.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to exempt from jury duty any active member of the Hawaii emergency management agency or any county emergency management agency.
SECTION 2. Section 612-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§612-6 Exempt when. (a) A person may claim exemption from service as a juror if the person is:
(1) An elected official while the legislature is
in session, or a judge of the United States, State, or county;
(2) An actively practicing physician or dentist;
(3) A member of the armed forces or militia when
on active service and deployed out-of-state;
(4) An active member of a police or fire department;
(5) A person who has served as a juror, either in a court of this State or the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, within one year preceding the time of filling out the juror qualification form;
(6) An active member of an emergency medical services agency;
(7) A person living more than seventy miles from the court for which jury service is required;
(8) A person eighty years of age or older; [or]
(9) A woman who is breastfeeding a child or
expressing breast milk for a period of two years from the birth of the child[.];
(10) An active member of the Hawaii emergency
management agency; or
(11) An active member of a county emergency
management agency established pursuant to section 127A-5.
(b) For purposes of this section, "emergency medical services agency" means any government agency, private agency, or company that provides ambulance services, emergency medical services, or disaster medical services."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Jury Duty; Exemptions; Emergency Management
Description:
Exempts
from jury duty any active member of the Hawaii emergency management agency or a
county emergency management agency.
(HB878 HD1)
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