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Assembly Bill A5656

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five

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2021-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5270
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §674-a, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8916, S7144

2021-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five.

2021-A5656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5656
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred 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:

   Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 674-a of the labor law, as
 added by chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, are  amended  to  read  to  as
 follows:
   1.  Wage  board. The commissioner shall hereby convene a farm laborers
 wage board. The wage board shall be comprised of [three]  FIVE  members:
 one  representative  of  the  farm bureau, one representative of the New
 York State AFL-CIO, THE COMMISSIONER OF  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS,  ONE
 REPRESENTATIVE  OF  THE  BUSINESS  COMMUNITY  AT  LARGE  and  one member
 appointed by the commissioner, who shall be selected  from  the  general
 public  and  designated  as  chairperson.  The wage board shall hold its
 first hearing no later  than  March  first,  two  thousand  twenty.  The
 members  of  the board shall not receive a salary or other compensation,
 but shall be paid actual and necessary traveling expenses while  engaged
 in the performance of their duties.
   2. Organization. [Two-thirds] THREE-FIFTHS of the members of the board
 shall  constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time formu-
 late rules governing the manner in which the wage board  shall  function
 and perform its duties under this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02008-01-1

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