2018 - Kentucky Senate Bill 87 - Increase Jury Pay

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The Issue

Senate Bill 87 - 2018 Session:

Increase pay to Jurors now paid just $12.50 a day!

 The wage for jury duty has not been raised in over 30 years!

Introduced on January 4 2017 & 2018

Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase payment to jurors for jury duty in Circuit and District Court from five dollars to ten dollars per day; provide that jurors be paid fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred; amend KRS 32.070 to provide that persons summoned for jury service in Circuit Court and jurors serving as grand jurors and petit jurors be paid the sum of fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred.

The Decision Makers

U.S. Senate
2 Members
Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senate - Kentucky
Rand Paul
U.S. Senate - Kentucky
Former State Senate
4 Members
C. B. Embry, Jr.
Former State Senate - Kentucky-6
Morgan McGarvey
Former State Senate - Kentucky-19
Julie Adams
Former State Senate - Kentucky-36
Harold Rogers
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District
Gerald A. Neal
Former KY State Senator
Matt Bevin
Former Governor - Kentucky

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