New York Senate Bill 1291 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-05-03 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
Pending: Senate Finance 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. Adriano Espaillat [D]	Sen. Joseph Addabbo [D]	Sen. Tony Avella [D]	Sen. Neil Breslin [D]
Sen. Leroy Comrie [D]	Sen. Ruben Diaz [D]	Sen. Martin Dilan [D]	Sen. Michael Gianaris [D]
Sen. Jesse Hamilton [D]	Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson [D]	Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal [D]	Sen. Todd Kaminsky [D]
Sen. Timothy Kennedy [D]	Sen. Jeffrey Klein [D]	Sen. Liz Krueger [D]	Sen. George Latimer [D]
Sen. Velmanette Montgomery [D]	Sen. Marc Panepinto [D]	Sen. Kevin Parker [D]	Sen. Jose Peralta [D]
Sen. Bill Perkins [D]	Sen. Roxanne Persaud [D]	Sen. Gustavo Rivera [D]	Sen. James Sanders [D]
Sen. Diane Savino [D]	Sen. Jose Serrano [D]	Sen. Daniel Squadron [D]	Sen. Toby Stavisky [D]
Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-05-03	Senate	REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2016-03-07	Senate	NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
2016-01-06	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR
2015-04-27	Senate	REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2015-03-19	Senate	NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
2015-01-09	Senate	REFERRED TO LABOR

A04762 (Same As) 2016-06-06 - reported referred to ways and means

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S01291&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S01291&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S01291