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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5084

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Rasmussen and Roach).

Read first time March 6, 1991.Increasing compensation for jurors to at least the state minimum wage.

     AN ACT Relating to compensation for jurors; and amending RCW 2.36.150.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 2.36.150 and 1987 c 202 s 105 are each amended to read as follows:

     Jurors shall receive for each day's attendance, besides mileage at the rate determined under RCW 43.03.060, ((the following)) compensation((:

     (1) Grand jurors may receive up to twenty-five dollars but in no case less than ten dollars;

     (2) Petit jurors may receive up to twenty-five dollars but in no case less than ten dollars;

     (3) Coroner's jurors may receive up to twenty-five dollars but in no case less than ten dollars;

     (4) District court jurors may receive up to twenty-five dollars but in no case less than ten dollars:  PROVIDED, That)) at not less than the state minimum wage.  A person excused from jury service at his or her own request shall be allowed not more than a per diem and such mileage, if any, as to the court shall seem just and equitable under all circumstances((: PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).  The state shall fully reimburse the county in which trial is held for all jury fees and witness fees related to criminal cases which result from incidents occurring within an adult or juvenile correctional institution((:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).  The compensation paid jurors shall be determined by the county legislative authority and shall be uniformly applied within the county.