BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York lawmakers are in talks to raise the daily pay for jury duty.
Right now jurors are paid $40 a day, a number that has stayed the same since 1998. A bill in the State Assembly would raise jury duty pay to $72 a day.
The legislation was previously approved in the State Senate, and now it could be put up for a vote in the Assembly in January.
The jury duty legislation is sponsored by State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who represents a district on the West Side of Manhattan, and State Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz, who represents a New York City district just south of Yonkers.