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H.R. 1080: Fairness for Farm Workers Act

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H.R. 1080: Fairness for Farm Workers Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-02-07 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-02-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Fairness for Farm Workers Act

Plain summary

Fairness for Farm Workers Act This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 with respect to agricultural workers. The bill requires employers, beginning in 2021, to compensate agricultural workers for hours worked in excess of their regular hours (i.e., 55 hours in 2021, 50 hours in 2022, 45 hours in 2023, and 40 hours in 2024) at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate. For employers with 25 or fewer employees, the overtime pay requirements begin in 2024. These overtime pay requirements do not apply, as in current law, to employees who are the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the employer's immediate family. The bill also repeals the exemption from overtime pay requirements for employers in various agriculture-related industries, including certain small farms, irrigation projects, sugar processing, and cotton ginning and compressing.

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Official text

Fairness for Farm Workers Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3] · 66 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Josh Harder (D-CA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jared F. Golden (D-ME), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and 6 more.

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Words on this page, explained (2)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Exemption
A rule that removes certain people, property or activities from a tax or requirement.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr1080 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116