Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to juries, including juror compensation and employer conduct, and making penalties applicable
Sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee
Topics:State budgetJobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 14, 2024
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill provides that a grand juror and a petit juror in all courts shall receive $75 as compensation for each day’s service or attendance. Under current law, a juror is entitled to $30 for each day’s service or attendance. The bill also requires the supreme court to adopt rules that allow juror compensation for service or attendance over seven days to be increased to $95 per day after the seventh day of service or attendance.
Read the full explanation
The bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work within hours of the time the employee is required to report for juror service or attendance. An employer who violates this provision commits contempt. An employee may bring a civil action within days of the violation for lost wages and an order for reinstatement. An employee who prevails can recover lost wages not to exceed six weeks of pay and reasonable attorney fees. These are the same remedies authorized under current law for other violations by an employer with respect to a juror.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named April 15, 2024. On April 16, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Fiscal note
5 million per year.
- Juror Pay · March 12, 2024
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
3 for · 0 against · 11 undecided · Who →
Family tree
Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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