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On this state holiday honoring farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, a state law has gone into effect to ban wooden benches on vans that transport workers to farm fields. Factory-made seats are now required. In 1999, 13 farmworkers died when a van with wooden seats slammed into a tractor-trailer rig.

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