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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enacts the farm laborers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farm laborers"
+description: "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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "A 8419"
+citation: "New York A 8419 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["NOLAN"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-06-16"
+last_action: "2019-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2364932d-4f08-43b2-950e-bcd7252b2ba5"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A8419"
+source_hash: "18b16f23d2b3270388192b66657f504c929aabe9280013885d66a0c449ab15e3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 8419 (2019-2020) — Enacts the farm laborers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farm laborers
+
+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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A8419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A8419&term=2019&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **40–22** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **94–54** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- NOLAN — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-16** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** REPORTED
+- **2019-06-18** RULES REPORT CAL.579
+- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.579
+- **2019-06-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6578
+- **2019-06-19** 3RD READING CAL.1664
+- **2019-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-07-16** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-17** SIGNED CHAP.105 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2364932d-4f08-43b2-950e-bcd7252b2ba5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+