Bill Text: VA SB789 | 2023 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Jury duty; increases allowance from $30 to $50 per day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) [SB789 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2023-SB789-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §17.1-618 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§17.1-618. Allowances for jurors; expenses of keeping jury together; fees of jury commissioners and commissioner in chancery for drawing of juries.
Every person summoned as a juror in a civil or criminal case
shall be entitled to thirty dollars $50 for each day of
attendance upon the court for expenses of travel incident to jury service and
other necessary and reasonable costs as the court may direct. Jurors summoned
from another political subdivision pursuant to §8.01-363 may be allowed by the
court, in addition to the above allowance, their actual expenses. When kept
together overnight under the supervision of the court, the jurors and the
sheriff or his deputies keeping the jury shall be furnished suitable board and
lodging. Reimbursement for board and lodging shall be set by the judge in an
amount not to exceed the amount authorized by travel regulations promulgated
pursuant to §2.2-2823. Allowances and other costs will be allowed a juror in
only one case the same day.
Every person serving as a jury commissioner and every person
serving as a commissioner in chancery for the drawing of juries for a circuit
court of this Commonwealth may be allowed, by the court appointing him, a fee
not exceeding thirty dollars $50 per day for the time actually
engaged in such work and such other necessary and reasonable costs as the court
may direct.
