SB 172 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Prescribes certain rights for agricultural workers. (BDR 53-959)

SB 172 extends Nevada's existing labor protections to agricultural workers by removing exemptions that previously allowed employers to value lodging and meals more highly when calculating wages. It creates an "Agricultural Workers' Bill of Rights" requiring employers to provide agricultural workers with reasonable housing access for visitors, access to service providers during work hours, and prohibiting restrictions on entering/exiting housing. The bill also bans certain hand-weeding methods requiring stooped positions and mandates employers to post notices about these rights. These changes directly affect agricultural workers in Nevada by applying standard wage calculation rules and new workplace protections previously limited to non-agricultural employees.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Assembly Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Jun 3, 2025

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Reprint 2 → Reprint 3 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill update clarifies that rest and meal break requirements apply to agricultural employees, previously exempted from certain wage and compensation rules, and reorganizes the bill's structure to reflect new amendments. The changes expand protections for farm workers by ensuring they receive mandated breaks and removing exemptions that allowed employers to value lodging and meals differently for agricultural workers.

Scope change

The bill now explicitly includes agricultural employees in rest and meal period requirements and removes exemptions for agricultural workers regarding the computable value of lodging and meals.

ELIGIBILITY

Rest and meal break requirements now explicitly apply to agricultural employees, whereas previous versions did not clearly include them.

REQUIREMENT

Removed exemptions that allowed agricultural workers to be excluded from prohibitions on the computable value of lodging and meals provided by employers.

TECHNICAL

Updated bill title from 'SECOND REPRINT' to 'THIRD REPRINT' and changed the amendment date from May 26, 2025 to June 1, 2025.

SCOPE

Changed the legislative description from 'enacting' the Agricultural Workers' Bill of Rights to 'clarifying provisions relating to' the bill, indicating a refinement rather than new creation of rights.

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Committee

May 30, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.

upper

May 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 752.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 13, Nays: 7, Excused: 1.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

From printer. To committee.

upper

Apr 16, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 307.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors