SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1689

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JONES.

         Read 1^st time March 18, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 494.430, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to jury duty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 494.430, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 494.430, to read as follows: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, osteopathy, chiropractic, dentistry or pharmacy;

            (6) Any person who is an elected official during his or her term of office.