Bill Text - HB1297 (2018)

Relative to compensation of jurors.


Revision: Nov. 7, 2017, 1:11 p.m.

HB 1297 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2142

04/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1297

 

AN ACT relative to compensation of jurors.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that payment to jurors shall comply with the payment of wages to employees under state labor laws.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2142

04/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to compensation of jurors.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Compensation of Jurors.  Amend RSA 500-A:15 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV.  Payment to jurors shall comply with the requirements of RSA 275:43.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.