HB0339ham003 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 2/18/2005

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 339

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 339, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 1, as follows:

on page 1, line 9, by replacing "$25 $4" with "$4 until a juror fund fee is imposed and $25 thereafter"; and

on page 1, line 10, by replacing "$30 $5" with "$5 until a juror fund fee is imposed and $30 thereafter"; and

on page 1, lines 11 and 12, by replacing "$40 $10" with "$10 until a juror fund fee is imposed and $40 thereafter"; and

by replacing line 24 on page 1 through line 6 on page 2 with the following: "shall be paid out of the county treasury until a juror fund fee is imposed and out of the County Juror Fund thereafter.

For the purpose of funding juror fees, the clerk of court shall collect a juror fund fee, as fixed by the county board, from each plaintiff and defendant in an action. Within 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the county board must conduct an acceptable cost study and set and impose an initial juror fund fee justified by that cost study as sufficient to pay the juror fees as increased by this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly. The county board may thereafter adjust the amount of the juror fund fee, but any increase must be justified by an acceptable cost study showing that the then current fee is not sufficient to cover the costs of juror fees. The clerk shall deposit all of the juror fund fees".