FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 336
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES TOWNLEY AND ROSS (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 11, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 494.430, RSMo 2000, relating to jury duty, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 494.430, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 494.430, to read as follows:
494.430. Upon timely application to the court, the following persons shall be excused from service as a petit or grand juror:
(1) Any person actually performing the duties of a clergyman;
(2) Any person who has served on a state or federal petit or grand jury within the preceding year;
(3) Any person whose absence from his or her regular place of employment would, in the judgment of the court, tend materially and adversely to affect the public safety, health, welfare or interest;
(4) Any person upon whom service as a juror would in the judgment of the court impose an extreme hardship;
(5) Any person licensed to engage in and actively engaged in the practice of medicine, veterinary medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, dentistry or pharmacy;
(6) Any person currently serving as a member of either house of the general assembly.
Missouri House of Representatives