Bill Text: NY S03541 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five; adds as members the commissioner of agriculture and markets and a member appointed by the Dean of the Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S03541 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03541-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3541

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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,  the  commissioner of agriculture and markets, one
     8  member appointed by the Dean of Cornell University's College of Agricul-
     9  ture and Life Sciences (CALS) and one member appointed  by  the  commis-
    10  sioner,  who shall be selected from the general public and designated as
    11  chairperson. The wage board shall hold its first hearing no  later  than
    12  March  first,  two  thousand  twenty. The members of the board shall not
    13  receive a salary or other compensation, but shall  be  paid  actual  and
    14  necessary  traveling  expenses while engaged in the performance of their
    15  duties.
    16    2. Organization. [Two-thirds] Three-fifths of the members of the board
    17  shall constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time  formu-
    18  late  rules  governing the manner in which the wage board shall function
    19  and perform its duties under this article.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    21  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01819-01-5