A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the rate of pay for north carolina jurors.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑312(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	A juror in the General Court of Justice including a petit juror, or a coroner's juror, but excluding a grand juror, shall receive twenty dollars ($20.00) for the first day of service and thirty dollars ($30.00) per day afterwards, except that if any person serves as a juror for more than five days in any 24‑month period, the juror shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each day of service in excess of five days. A grand juror shall receive thirty dollars ($30.00) per day. A juror required to remain overnight at the site of the trial shall be furnished adequate accommodations and subsistence. If required by the presiding judge to remain in a body during the trial of a case, meals shall be furnished the jurors during the period of sequestration. Jurors from out of the county summoned to sit on a special venire shall receive mileage at the same rate as State employees. Persons summoned as jurors shall be exempt during their period of service from paying a ferry toll required under G.S. 136‑82 to travel to and from their homes and the site of that service."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.