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Conference committee narrows employer-record access in wage-theft provision (A36)
Summary
Conference committee adopted an amendment narrowing which parties' records can be accessed in wage-theft investigations and set a probable-cause threshold mirroring existing welfare fraud and identity-theft rules.
The House and Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Conference Committee on May 14 adopted Senate language (Article 6, R1–R2) with an A36 amendment that changes who can be compelled to produce records in wage-theft investigations.
Senator Uma Verbaten moved adoption and described two principal changes in the A36 amendment: removal of a vague "other person" category so that access is limited to records of employers or business entities, and insertion of the phrase "or has information related to" to capture…
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