Enacts the farm laborers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farm laborers
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2019
Committee Review
Jun 2019
Assembly Passage
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jul 2019
Introduced Jun 16, 2019
Signed Jul 17, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 19, 2019 · Assembly Jun 19, 2019
How they voted
39–22
Passed
Total votes 61
Jun 19, 2019
D
Democratic39
100% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
14
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Jul 17, 2019
Signed into law
SIGNED CHAP.105
lower
Jun 19, 2019
Upper · Passed
PASSED SENATE
upper
Jun 19, 2019
Committee
REFERRED TO RULES
upper
Jun 19, 2019
Lower · Passed
PASSED ASSEMBLY
lower
Jun 18, 2019
Committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
lower
Jun 16, 2019
Committee
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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