I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3283 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from certain 
age-related restrictions in the labor laws 16- and 17-year-old individuals 
employed by their parents in certain logging activities, and to direct 
the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to allow States 
to enter into interstate compacts to standardize the age requirements 
for operators of commercial motor vehicles. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2015 
Mr. POLIQUIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt 
from certain age-related restrictions in the labor laws 
16- and 17-year-old individuals employed by their par-
ents in certain logging activities, and to direct the Sec-
retary of Transportation to establish a program to allow 
States to enter into interstate compacts to standardize 
the age requirements for operators of commercial motor 
vehicles. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing America’s 
Next Generation of Safe Loggers and Truckers Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN AGE-RELATED RE-
STRICTIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT BY A PARENT 
IN LOGGING AND MECHANIZED OPERATIONS. 
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
201 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203)— 
(A) in subsection (l), by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘, and that employment of em-
ployees ages 16 or 17 years in a logging oper-
ation in an occupation that the Secretary of 
Labor finds and declares to be particularly haz-
ardous for the employment of individuals of 
such ages shall not constitute oppressive child 
labor if such employee is employed exclusively 
by his or her parent or by a person standing in 
the place of his or her parent in a logging oper-
ation owned or operated by such parent or per-
son’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(z) ‘Logging’— (1) means— 
‘‘(A) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and 
processing of timber by equipment other than manu-
ally operated chainsaws and cable skidders; 
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‘‘(B) the felling of timber in mechanized oper-
ations, including whole tree processors, cut-to-length 
processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled and 
track feller-bunchers, pull thru delimbers, wheeled 
and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, mechanical 
debarkers, wheeled and track grapple skidders, 
yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders; 
‘‘(C) the bucking or converting of timber into 
logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, ex-
celsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar prod-
ucts; 
‘‘(D) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, 
transporting and unloading of such products in con-
nection with logging; 
‘‘(E) the constructing, repairing and maintain-
ing of roads or camps used in connection with log-
ging; the constructing, repairing, and maintenance 
of machinery or equipment used in logging; and 
‘‘(F) other work performed in connection with 
logging; and 
‘‘(2) does not include the manual use of chain saws 
to fell and process timber and the use of cable skidders 
to bring the timber to the landing.’’; and 
(2) in section 13(c) (29 U.S.C. 211(c)), by add-
ing at the end the following: 
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‘‘(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to 
child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 
17 years old employed in a logging operation in an 
occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds and de-
clares to be particularly hazardous for the employ-
ment of individuals ages 16 or 17, except where such 
employee is employed exclusively by his or her par-
ent or by a person standing in the place of his or 
her parent in a logging operation owned or operated 
by such parent or person.’’. 
SEC. 3. INTERSTATE COMPACT TEST PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Federal 
Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall establish a test 
program to allow States and the District of Columbia to 
enter into interstate compacts with contiguous States to 
standardize the requirements for operators of commercial 
motor vehicles in interstate commerce. 
(b) MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF LICENSES.—A com-
mercial driver’s license issued by one State participating 
in an interstate compact under subsection (a) shall be rec-
ognized as valid in every State that is participating in such 
compact. 
(c) STANDARDS.—In developing an interstate com-
pact under this section, participating States shall provide 
for minimum licensure standards acceptable for interstate 
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