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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2335 

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

mechanized operations from child labor laws. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 14, 2014 

Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. CRAPO) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

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 as the ‘‘Future Logging Ca5 reers 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— 

16 ‘‘(i) the felling of timber in mechanized op17 erations; 

18 ‘‘(ii) the bucking or converting of timber 

19 into logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical 

20 wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or 

21 similar products; 

22 ‘‘(iii) the collecting, skidding, yarding, 

23 loading, transporting and unloading of such 

24 products in connection with logging; 


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1 ‘‘(iv) the constructing, repairing and main2 taining of roads or camps used in connection 

3 with logging; 

4 ‘‘(v) the constructing, repairing, and main5 tenance of machinery or equipment used in log6 ging; and 

7 ‘‘(vi) other work performed in connection 

8 with logging; and 

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

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

11 skidders to bring the timber to the landing. 

12 ‘‘(2) ‘Mechanized operation’— 

13 ‘‘(A) means the felling, skidding, yarding, load14 ing and processing of timber by equipment other 

15 than manually operated chainsaws and cable skid16 ders; and 

17 ‘‘(B) includes whole tree processors, cut-to18 length processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled 

19 and track feller-bunchers, pull thru delimbers, 

20 wheeled and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, 

21 mechanical debarkers, wheeled and track grapple 

22 skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log 

23 loaders.’’; and 

24 (2) in section 13(c) (29 U.S.C. 211(c)), by add25 ing at the end the following: 


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

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

3 17 years old employed in a logging or mechanized 

4 operation in an occupation that the Secretary of 

5 Labor finds and declares to be particularly haz6 ardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 

7 17, except where such employee is employed by his 

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

9 parent in a logging or mechanized operation owned 

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

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