S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6999
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 10, 2023
___________
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:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 521 of the judiciary law, as
amended by chapter 302 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, trial and
grand jurors in each court of the unified court system shall be entitled
to an allowance equal to the sum of [forty] SIXTY dollars per day for
THE FIRST TEN DAYS AND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR each and every day THERE-
AFTER of physical attendance wherein the court convenes, except that no
person who is employed shall be entitled to receive such allowance if,
pursuant to section five hundred nineteen of this article, his or her
employer is prohibited from withholding [the first forty dollars] SUCH
APPLICABLE AMOUNT of wages of such person during such APPLICABLE period
and such person's daily wages equal or exceed [forty dollars] SUCH
APPLICABLE AMOUNTS. If such person's daily wages are less than [forty
dollars] THE APPLICABLE AMOUNT, he or she shall be entitled to receive
an allowance hereunder equal to the difference between [forty dollars]
SUCH AMOUNT and the amount of his or her daily wages. Such fees and
those expenses actually and necessarily incurred in providing food and
lodging for jurors shall be a state charge payable out of funds appro-
priated to the office of court administration for that purpose.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11187-01-3