Bill Text: NY A08916 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8916 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 26-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - print number 8916a [A08916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08916-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8916--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 30, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HAWLEY, B. MILLER, DeSTEFANO, FRIEND, TAGUE,
          MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, SMULLEN, DiPIETRO, CROUCH, RA, BRABENEC,  BYRNES
          --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, LAWRENCE, SALKA, WALSH --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Labor in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the  number  of
          members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 674-a of the labor law,  as
     2  added  by  chapter  105  of  the laws of 2019, are amended to read to as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Wage board. The commissioner shall hereby convene a  farm  laborers
     5  wage  board.  The wage board shall be comprised of [three] five members:
     6  one representative of the farm bureau, one  representative  of  the  New
     7  York  State  AFL-CIO,  the  commissioner of agriculture and markets, one
     8  representative of  the  business  community  at  large  and  one  member
     9  appointed  by  the  commissioner, who shall be selected from the general
    10  public and designated as chairperson. The  wage  board  shall  hold  its
    11  first  hearing  no  later  than  March  first,  two thousand twenty. The
    12  members of the board shall not receive a salary or  other  compensation,
    13  but  shall be paid actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged
    14  in the performance of their duties.
    15    2. Organization. [Two-thirds] Three-fifths of the members of the board
    16  shall constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time  formu-
    17  late  rules  governing the manner in which the wage board shall function
    18  and perform its duties under this article.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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