New York Senate Bill 2837 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-0)
Status: Introduced on January 29 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR
Pending: Senate Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.

Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.

Sen. Jessica Ramos [D]	Sen. Robert Jackson [D]	Sen. Joseph Addabbo [D]	Sen. Jamaal Bailey [D]
Sen. Brian Benjamin [D]	Sen. Alessandra Biaggi [D]	Sen. Neil Breslin [D]	Sen. John Brooks [D]
Sen. David Carlucci [D]	Sen. Leroy Comrie [D]	Sen. James Gaughran [D]	Sen. Michael Gianaris [D]
Sen. Andrew Gounardes [D]	Sen. Peter Harckham [D]	Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal [D]	Sen. Todd Kaminsky [D]
Sen. Anna Kaplan [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]	Sen. Timothy Kennedy [D]	Sen. Liz Krueger [D]
Sen. John Liu [D]	Sen. Shelley Mayer [D]	Sen. Velmanette Montgomery [D]	Sen. Zellnor Myrie [D]
Sen. Kevin Parker [D]	Sen. Roxanne Persaud [D]	Sen. Gustavo Rivera [D]	Sen. Julia Salazar [D]
Sen. James Sanders [D]	Sen. Diane Savino [D]	Sen. Luis Sepulveda [D]	Sen. Jose Serrano [D]
Sen. Toby Stavisky [D]	Sen. Kevin Thomas [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-08	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR
2019-01-29	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR

A02750 (Same As) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2837
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02837&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S02837