Bill Text: PA HB670 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for compensation of witnesses.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 17-10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-27 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB670 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB670-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 731
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 670 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY HESS, PHILLIPS, FLECK, GEIST, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BEYER, BROWN, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, FAIRCHILD, HELM, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MELIO, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MURT, O'NEILL, PAYNE, PRESTON, READSHAW, SABATINA, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, STABACK AND THOMAS, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
compensation of witnesses.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5903(b) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 5903. Compensation and expenses of witnesses.
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(b) Compensation.--Every witness, except a salaried police
officer attending a coroner's inquest during working hours,
shall be paid at the rate of [$5] $40 per day during the
necessary period of attendance. [A witness under the act of
March 30, 1937 (P.L.115, No.40), known as "The First Class City
Permanent Registration Act" shall be paid at the rate of $20 per
day.]
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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