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CO SB128

Bill

Status

Passed

5/29/2025

Primary Sponsor

Byron Pelton

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Repeals provisions from Senate Bill 21-087 that prohibited agricultural employers from interfering with workers' access to key service providers on private property, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (2021) ruling that such access requirements constitute an unconstitutional taking of property rights

  • Employers may no longer interfere with agricultural workers' access to service providers at locations other than the employer's property during non-work time, rest breaks, and meal breaks

  • Employers must allow agricultural workers reasonable access to key service providers through remote channels, including telehealth appointments, while on the employer's property

  • Defines "employer's property" as property in which the employer holds an ownership or possessory interest or a right to exclude

  • Prohibits the Division of Labor from adopting rules that infringe on employers' private property rights or conflict with common law emergency access rights

Legislative Description

Agricultural Worker Service Providers Access Private Property

Labor & Employment

Last Action

Governor Signed

5/29/2025

Committee Referrals

Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources3/11/2025
Committee of the Whole2/27/2025
Agriculture and Natural Resources2/5/2025

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