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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4590 

To exempt certain 16- and 17-year-old children employed in logging or 

mechanized operations from child labor laws. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 7, 2014 

Mr. LABRADOR (for himself and Mr. SOUTHERLAND) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To exempt certain 16- and 17-year-old children employed 

in logging or mechanized operations from child labor laws. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited ‘‘Future Logging Careers 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CHILD LABOR LAW EXEMPTIONS FOR LOGGING AND 

7 MECHANIZED OPERATIONS. 

8 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 

9 201 et seq.) is amended— 

10 (1) in section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203)— 

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1 (A) in subsection (l), by adding at the end 

2 the following: ‘‘, and that employment of em3 ployees ages sixteen or seventeen years in a log4 ging or mechanized operation in an occupation 

5 that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares 

6 to be particularly hazardous for the employment 

7 of children of such ages shall not be deemed to 

8 constitute oppressive child labor if such em9 ployee is employed by his parent or by a person 

10 standing in the place of his parent in a logging 

11 or mechanized operation owned or operated by 

12 such parent or person’’; and 

13 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(z)(1) ‘Logging’— 

15 ‘‘(A) means the felling, skidding, yarding, load16 ing and processing of timber by equipment other 

17 than manually operated chainsaws and cable skid18 ders; and 

19 ‘‘(i) the felling of timber in mechanized oper20 ations; 

21 ‘‘(ii) the bucking or converting of timber into 

22 logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, ex23 celsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar prod24 ucts; 

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1 ‘‘(iii) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, 

2 transporting and unloading of such products in con3 nection with logging; 

4 ‘‘(iv) the constructing, repairing and maintain5 ing of roads or camps used in connection with log6 ging; the constructing, repairing, and maintenance 

7 of machinery or equipment used in logging; and 

8 ‘‘(v) other work performed in connection with 

9 logging; and 

10 ‘‘(B) does not include the manual use of chain 

11 saws to fell and process timber and the use of cable 

12 skidders to bring the timber to the landing. 

13 ‘‘(2) ‘Mechanized operation’— 

14 ‘‘(A) means the felling, skidding, yarding, load15 ing and processing of timber by equipment other 

16 than manually operated chainsaws and cable skid17 ders; and 

18 ‘‘(B) includes whole tree processors, cut-to19 length processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled 

20 and track feller-bunchers, pull thru delimbers, 

21 wheeled and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, 

22 mechanical debarkers, wheeled and track grapple 

23 skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log 

24 loaders.’’; and 

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1 (2) in section 13(c) (29 U.S.C. 211(c)), by add2 ing at the end the following: 

3 ‘‘(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to 

4 child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 

5 17 years old employed in a logging or mechanized 

6 operation in an occupation that the Secretary of 

7 Labor finds and declares to be particularly haz8 ardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 

9 17, except where such employee is employed by his 

10 parent or by a person standing in the place of his 

11 parent in a logging or mechanized operation owned 

12 or operated by such parent or person.’’. 

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