New York Senate Bill 2721 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-12 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE
Pending: Senate Agriculture 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. Marisol Alcantara [D]	Sen. Jose Peralta [D]	Sen. Joseph Addabbo [D]	Sen. Tony Avella [D]
Sen. Jamaal Bailey [D]	Sen. Brian Benjamin [D]	Sen. Neil Breslin [D]	Sen. John Brooks [D]
Sen. David Carlucci [D]	Sen. Leroy Comrie [D]	Sen. Martin Dilan [D]	Sen. Michael Gianaris [D]
Sen. Jesse Hamilton [D]	Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal [D]	Sen. Todd Kaminsky [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]
Sen. Timothy Kennedy [D]	Sen. Jeffrey Klein [D]	Sen. Liz Krueger [D]	Sen. Shelley Mayer [D]
Sen. Kevin Parker [D]	Sen. Roxanne Persaud [D]	Sen. Gustavo Rivera [D]	Sen. James Sanders [D]
Sen. Diane Savino [D]	Sen. Luis Sepulveda [D]	Sen. Jose Serrano [D]	Sen. Toby Stavisky [D]
Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins [D]

2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate Labor Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	Senate	REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE
2018-01-03	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR
2017-01-17	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR

A04189 (Same As) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02721&term=2017&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02721&term=2017&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S02721
Roll Call	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S2721#SC1