THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1108
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to jury duty.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 612-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§612-6  Exempt when.  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.

     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 2.  Section 612-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Each juror or prospective juror shall be paid $30 for each day of actual attendance at court.  In addition, each juror or prospective juror shall be paid the higher of either:

     (1)  [33] 45 cents for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in going to and from court; or

     (2)  The cost of an adult bus fare to and from the court.

A person who appears at the time for which that person is summoned to court for jury duty may be allowed the mileage fee or bus fare although the person, upon that person's request, is subsequently excused or exempted from jury service."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2017.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Jury Duty; Exemptions; Mileage Fee

 

Description:

Changes the distance that a person must live from the court in order to receive a jury service exemption from seventy miles to an unspecified number of miles.  Increases the mileage fee paid to jurors and prospective jurors from 33 cents to 45 cents.

 

 

 

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