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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 — **4022** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **9454** (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).