Increases the allowances provided to trial and grand jurors to $60 per day for the first ten days and $100 per day every day thereafter of physical attendance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5196
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to increasing the allow-
ances provided to trial and grand jurors
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 521 of the judiciary law, as
2 amended by chapter 302 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, trial and
5 grand jurors in each court of the unified court system shall be entitled
6 to an allowance equal to the sum of [forty] sixty dollars per day for
7 the first ten days and one hundred dollars for each and every day there-
8 after of physical attendance wherein the court convenes, except that no
9 person who is employed shall be entitled to receive such allowance if,
10 pursuant to section five hundred nineteen of this article, [his or her]
11 such juror's employer is prohibited from withholding [the first forty
12 dollars] such applicable amount of wages of such person during such
13 applicable period and such person's daily wages equal or exceed [forty
14 dollars] such applicable amounts. If such person's daily wages are less
15 than [forty dollars] the applicable amount, [he or she] such juror shall
16 be entitled to receive an allowance hereunder equal to the difference
17 between [forty dollars] such amount and the amount of [his or her] such
18 juror's daily wages. Such fees and those expenses actually and necessar-
19 ily incurred in providing food and lodging for jurors shall be a state
20 charge payable out of funds appropriated to the office of court adminis-
21 tration for that purpose.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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