ND HB1047

Courts must offer up to 10 hours of free post-trial psychological counseling to jurors and alternate jurors who served on trials involving extraordinarily graphic, gruesome, or emotional evidence

Eligible trials include those involving murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, felony assault or domestic violence, sexual offenses, and child abuse or neglect

Counseling must be completed within 180 days after the jury is discharged and may be provided through the court system, a state agency, or by contract

Passed the House 80-11 and the Senate 32-13; introduced at the request of the North Dakota Supreme Court