PRINTER'S NO. 42

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 40 Session of 1989

        INTRODUCED BY LLOYD, KOSINSKI, WOGAN, HALUSKA, JOHNSON, VEON,
           DOMBROWSKI, E. Z. TAYLOR, MRKONIC, SCHEETZ, RAYMOND, NOYE,
           CAWLEY, STUBAN, ITKIN, GODSHALL, COLAIZZO AND KAISER,
           JANUARY 18, 1989

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 18, 1989

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
     2     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
     3     compensation and expenses of witnesses.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 5903(b) and (c) of Title 42 of the
     7  Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
     8  § 5903.  Compensation and expenses of witnesses.
     9     * * *
    10     (b)  Compensation.--Every witness, except a salaried police
    11  officer attending a coroner's inquest during working hours or an
    12  employee of the Commonwealth attending a proceeding during
    13  working hours in his capacity as an employee of the
    14  Commonwealth, shall be paid at the rate of $5 per day during the
    15  necessary period of attendance. A witness under the act of March
    16  30, 1937 (P.L.115, No.40), known as ["]The First Class City
    17  Permanent Registration Act["], shall be paid at the rate of $20

     1  per day. An employee of the Commonwealth shall be paid at the
     2  per day rate of compensation he is entitled to receive for work
     3  performed for the Commonwealth.
     4     (c)  Travel.--Every witness, except a salaried police officer
     5  attending a coroner's inquest during working hours or an
     6  employee of the Commonwealth attending a proceeding during
     7  working hours in his capacity as an employee of the
     8  Commonwealth, shall be paid mileage at the rate of 7¢ for each
     9  mile circular actually and necessarily travelled between the
    10  place named in the subpoena and the place of residence of the
    11  witness. An employee of the Commonwealth shall be paid mileage
    12  at the per mile rate he is entitled to receive for official
    13  travel performed for the Commonwealth.
    14     * * *
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.










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