[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1959 Introduced in House (IH)]

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108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1959

   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

                              May 6, 2003

 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,''.