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Committee advances bill creating landowner liability standard for unregistered farmworker camps
Summary
The committee approved House Bill 3194 A to the floor with a do‑pass recommendation; the bill creates joint and several liability for landowners who knew or should have known their property was used for an unregistered farmworker camp, establishes a rebuttable presumption for compliant lease language, and raises statutory damages.
The Senate Committee on Rollers on June 23 advanced House Bill 3194 A to the Senate floor with a do‑pass recommendation. The bill would make landowners jointly and severally liable where they knew or should have known their property was being used as the site of an unregistered farmworker camp, and it raises damages recoverable by an aggrieved person.
Committee staff said the measure creates a rebuttable presumption that a landowner did not know and could not…
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