Votes: NY A08419 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts the farm laborers 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 farm laborers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-17 - signed chap.105 [A08419 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Voting Records

ChamberVoteDateYeaNayNVAbsTotalResultSourceView
SenateSenate Floor Vote - Final Passage2019-06-1940220062PassedLinkView
AssemblyAssembly Floor Vote - Final Passage2019-06-19945402150PassedLinkView
AssemblyAssembly Ways And Means Committee: Favorable refer to committee Rules2019-06-1822110235PassedLinkView
AssemblyAssembly Rules Committee: Favorable2019-06-181870631PassedLinkView


Social Comments on NY A08419

feedback