Roll Call: NY A08419 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly
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Bill Title: Enacts the farm laborers 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 farm laborers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-17 - signed chap.105 [A08419 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Bill Title: Enacts the farm laborers 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 farm laborers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-17 - signed chap.105 [A08419 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Vote: Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage
Vote | Tally | Democrat | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Yea | 40 | 40 | - |
Nay | 22 | - | 22 |
Not Voting | - | - | - |
Absent | - | - | - |
TOTAL | 62 | 40 | 22 |