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