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Read. Follow. Verify.Nevada bill authorizes written wage exclusions for H-2A range herders and exempts employers from daily hour recordkeeping
Last action · April 12, 2025: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)Sponsor: John Ellison
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What This Bill Proposed
Employers and temporary agricultural foreign workers hired as range livestock herders under s may enter into a written agreement to exclude specific periods for meals, sleep, and personal free time from paid wages. The measure exempts these employers from maintaining precise daily hour records if work time coincides with the agreement, and establishes penalties and administrative fines of up to $5,000 for violations.
Range livestock herders and their employers gain the legal framework to establish written wage exclusions for sleep and meal periods, altering standard wage and daily hour recordkeeping obligations under state labor laws.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
H-2A visa herders
Temporary agricultural foreign workers may enter written agreements to exclude specific meal, sleep, and free time periods from their paid wages.
Agricultural employers
Employers of range herders are exempt from daily hour recordkeeping requirements under specific agreements and face penalties for violations.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who qualifies as an H-2A visa herder under this bill?
What happens if a herder is called to duty during an excluded sleep or meal period?
What are the penalties for violating these wage provisions?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 12, 2025(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
- Feb 14, 2025CommitteeFrom printer. To committee.
- Feb 12, 2025IntroducedRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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