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SB 87 (BR 907) - D. Seum

     AN ACT relating to pay for jury service.
     Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase payment to jurors for jury duty in Circuit and District Court from five dollars to ten dollars per day; require that jurors be paid fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred; amend KRS 32.070 to require that persons summoned for jury service in Circuit Court and jurors serving as grand jurors and petit jurors be paid the sum of fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred.


AMENDMENTS

     SCS1 - Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to require the Administrative Office of the Court to create a volunteer juror form; provide that the circuit clerk make the form available to the public; require the circuit clerk to submit the form to the Administrative Office of the Courts; and amend KRS 29A.040 to require that the list of prospective jurors also include persons who signed up to volunteer as a juror, delete language related to increasing juror pay.
     SCA1( D. Seum ) - Make title amendment.

     Jan 04, 2018 - introduced in Senate
     Jan 05, 2018 - to Judiciary (S)
     Mar 01, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title)
     Mar 02, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Mar 06, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 7, 2018
     Mar 07, 2018 - passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
     Mar 08, 2018 - taken from the Orders of the Day; recommitted to Judiciary (S)