STATE OF NEW YORK
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7144--A
IN SENATE
January 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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 representative of the business community at large and one member
9 appointed by the commissioner, who shall be selected from the general
10 public and designated as chairperson. The wage board shall hold its
11 first hearing no later than March first, two thousand twenty. The
12 members of the board shall not receive a salary or other compensation,
13 but shall be paid actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged
14 in the performance of their duties.
15 2. Organization. [Two-thirds] Three-fifths of the members of the board
16 shall constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time formu-
17 late rules governing the manner in which the wage board shall function
18 and perform its duties under this article.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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