To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for individuals serving as Federal jurors to continue to receive their normal average wage or salary during such service.

Amends the federal judicial code to require the public or private employer of a federal grand or petit juror to pay to that juror his or her regular pay (or average daily wage) for each day such individual performs jury duty, less the aggregate amount of any fees and allowances paid.

Allows a person summoned for jury service to be excused upon a showing by his or her employer that payment during such service would result in significant hardship to the employer.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3456 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3456

   To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for individuals 
 serving as Federal jurors to continue to receive their normal average 
                  wage or salary during such service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2005

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for individuals 
 serving as Federal jurors to continue to receive their normal average 
                  wage or salary during such service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONTINUATION OF WAGES OR SALARY FOR INDIVIDUALS SERVING AS 
              FEDERAL JURORS.

    (a) Continuation of Wages or Salary.--Section 1877 of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(b)(1) The employer of a Federal grand or petit juror shall pay 
to that juror, for each day during which that juror performs duty as a 
juror, a wage not less than the differential compensation specified in 
paragraph (2) less the aggregate amount, paid to the juror for that 
day, of any fees and allowances under section 1871.
            ``(2) The differential compensation referred to in 
        paragraph (1) means--
                    ``(A) if that juror has a regular employment 
                schedule with that employer, the wage or salary that 
                the juror would have been paid for that day under that 
                schedule but for that juror's performance of duty as a 
                juror; or
                    ``(B) if that juror does not have a regular 
                employment schedule with that employer, the average 
                daily wage or salary of the juror during the 7-day 
                period ending on the day before the juror first 
                performed duty as a juror.
            ``(3) For purposes of this subsection, the term `employer' 
        includes any public or private employer.''.
    (b) Significant Hardship to Employer.--Paragraph (1) of section 
1866(c) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``or 
upon a showing by the employer of the person that payment of 
differential compensation under section 1877(b) would result in 
significant hardship to the employer,'' after ``inconvenience,''.
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