Bill Title: 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 a 10 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-13 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S01862 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Adriano Espaillat [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Eric Adams [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Joseph Addabbo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-015	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tony Avella [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Neil Breslin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Ruben Diaz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Martin Dilan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Thomas Duane [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Gianaris [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Shirley Huntley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jeffrey Klein [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Liz Krueger [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-028	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Velmanette Montgomery [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Suzi Oppenheimer [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kevin Parker [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jose Peralta [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Bill Perkins [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Gustavo Rivera [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator John Sampson [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Diane Savino [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jose Serrano [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Malcolm Smith [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Daniel Squadron [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Toby Stavisky [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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