S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5196
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
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:
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]
SUCH JUROR'S 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] SUCH JUROR shall
be entitled to receive an allowance hereunder equal to the difference
between [forty dollars] SUCH AMOUNT and the amount of [his or her] SUCH
JUROR'S daily wages. Such fees and those expenses actually and necessar-
ily incurred in providing food and lodging for jurors shall be a state
charge payable out of funds appropriated to the office of court adminis-
tration 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.
LBD08968-01-5
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