FILED SENATE
Apr 4, 2023
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 588
SESSION 2023 PRINCIPAL CLERK
S D
SENATE BILL DRS35182-ND-107
Short Title: Increase Juror Pay. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Applewhite (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO RAISE THE PAY RATE OF JURORS.
3 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
4 SECTION 1. G.S. 7A-312(a) reads as rewritten:
5 "(a) A juror in the General Court of Justice Justice, including a petit juror, or a coroner's
6 juror, but excluding and a grand juror, shall receive twelve dollars ($12.00) for the first day of
7 service and twenty dollars ($20.00) per day afterwards, except that if any person serves as a juror
8 for more than five days in any 24-month period, the juror shall receive forty dollars ($40.00) per
9 day for each day of service in excess of five days. A grand juror shall receive twenty dollars
10 ($20.00) per day. pay in an amount equal to the minimum wage required by G.S. 95-25.3(a) for
11 each hour of service as a juror. A juror required to remain overnight at the site of the trial shall
12 be furnished adequate accommodations and subsistence. If required by the presiding judge to
13 remain in a body during the trial of a case, meals shall be furnished the jurors during the period
14 of sequestration. Jurors from out of the county summoned to sit on a special venire shall receive
15 mileage at the same rate as State employees. Persons summoned as jurors shall be exempt during
16 their period of service from paying a ferry toll required under G.S. 136-82 to travel to and from
17 their homes and the site of that service."
18 SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2023, and applies to jurors
19 serving on or after that date.
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Statutes affected:
Filed: 7A-312
Edition 1: 7A-312