Bill Text: NY A08632 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8632 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - referred to labor [A08632 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08632-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8632

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        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, one member appointed by the commissioner of agricul-
     8  ture  and  markets,  the  farm  labor specialist from the New York state
     9  college of agricultural and life sciences established in section  fifty-
    10  seven  hundred  twelve  of the education law and one member appointed by
    11  the commissioner, who shall be selected  from  the  general  public  and
    12  designated  as  chairperson. The wage board shall hold its first hearing
    13  no later than March first, two thousand twenty. The members of the board
    14  shall not receive a salary or other  compensation,  but  shall  be  paid
    15  actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the performance
    16  of their duties.
    17    2. Organization. [Two-thirds] Three-fifths of the members of the board
    18  shall  constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time formu-
    19  late rules governing the manner in which the wage board  shall  function
    20  and perform its duties under this article.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13819-02-1