FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 222
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CLAY.
Read 1st time January 7, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0366.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 494.455, RSMo 1994, relating to the compensation of jurors, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 494.455, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 494.455, to read as follows:
494.455. 1. Each grand and petit juror shall receive [six] twelve dollars per day, for every day he may actually serve as such, and seven cents for every mile he may necessarily travel going from his place of residence to the courthouse and returning, to be paid from funds of the county or a city not within a county; provided however, that an amount equal to six dollars per day shall be made and disbursed from the state, subject to appropriation, to such county or city not within a county for service of such juror. If the state appropriates an amount equal to less than six dollars per day per juror, the amount received for jury service shall be adjusted accordingly.
2. The governing body of each county or a city not within a county may authorize additional daily compensation and mileage allowance for jurors, which additional compensation shall be paid from the funds of the county or a city not within a county.
3. The governing body of each county or a city not within a county may authorize additional daily compensation and mileage allowance for jurors attending a coroner's inquest.
4. Jurors may receive the additional compensation and mileage allowance
authorized by subsections 2 and 3 of this section only if the governing body of the county or the city not within a county authorizes the additional compensation. Except as provided in subsection 1 of this section, all provisions of this section which authorize the granting of additional compensation shall terminate upon the issuance of a mandate by the Missouri supreme court which would result in the state of Missouri being obligated or required to pay any such additional compensation even though such additional compensation is formally approved or authorized by the governing body of a county or a city not within a county.
5. When each panel of jurors summoned and attending court has completed its service, the board of jury commissioners shall cause to be submitted to the governing body of the county or a city not within a county a statement of fees earned by each juror. Upon approval, the governing body shall cause payment to be made to those jurors summoned the fees earned during their service as jurors.