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1997 SESSION
HB 1560 Jury service exemption; persons indispensable to business.
Introduced by: A. Victor Thomas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Jury service; exemption; persons indispensable to business. Exempts from jury duty individuals who alone perform services for a business, commercial or agricultural enterprise and whose services are so essential that the enterprise must close or cease to function if the individual were required to perform jury duty.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/97 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 08/19/96 970557468 pdf
- 02/03/97 House: Printed as engrossed 970557468-E pdf
- 02/18/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1560ER) pdf
- 03/24/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/97 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 08/19/96 970557468
- 01/08/97 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/13/97 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 2
- 02/02/97 House: Reported from C. J. with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/97 House: Read first time
- 02/03/97 House: Read second time
- 02/03/97 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/03/97 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/03/97 House: Printed as engrossed 970557468-E
- 02/04/97 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N)
- 02/04/97 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 3-N)
- 02/04/97 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/05/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/97 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/97 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/97 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: Read third time
- 02/12/97 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1560ER)
- 02/22/97 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/21/97 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/97)
- 03/24/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)