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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1785 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain 16- 
and 17-year-old individuals employed in timber harvesting entities or 
mechanized timber harvesting entities from child labor laws, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2019 
Mr. GOLDEN (for himself and Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt 
certain 16- and 17-year-old individuals employed in tim-
ber harvesting entities or mechanized timber harvesting 
entities from child labor laws, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Future in Logging Ca-
reers Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CHILD LABOR LAW EXEMPTIONS FOR TIMBER HAR-
VESTING ENTITIES AND MECHANIZED TIM-
BER HARVESTING ENTITIES. 
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), by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(z)(1) ‘Timber harvesting employer’ means an em-
ployer engaged in— 
‘‘(A) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading 
and processing of timber by equipment other 
than manually operated chainsaws and cable 
skidders; 
‘‘(B) the felling of timber in mechanized 
operations; 
‘‘(C) the bucking or converting of timber 
into logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical 
wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or 
similar products; 
‘‘(D) the collecting, skidding, yarding, 
loading, transporting and unloading of such 
products in connection with logging; 
‘‘(E) the constructing, repairing and main-
taining of roads or camps used in connection 
with logging; the constructing, repairing, and 
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maintenance of machinery or equipment used in 
logging; and 
‘‘(F) other work performed in connection 
with logging. 
‘‘(2) ‘Mechanized timber harvesting employer’— 
‘‘(A) means an employer engaged in the felling, 
skidding, yarding, loading and processing of timber 
by equipment other than manually operated chain-
saws and cable skidders; and 
‘‘(B) includes an employer engaged in the use 
of 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 debark-
ers, wheeled and track grapple skidders, yarders, 
bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders.’’; and 
(2) in section 13 (29 U.S.C. 213), by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(k) The provisions of section 12 relating to child 
labor shall not apply to an employee between the ages six-
teen and eighteen years who is employed— 
‘‘(1) in an occupation that the Secretary of 
Labor finds to be particularly hazardous for the em-
ployment of children between the ages of sixteen and 
eighteen years; 
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‘‘(2) by a person who is a parent, or standing 
in the place of a parent, of such employee; and 
‘‘(3) by a timber harvesting employer or a 
mechanized timber harvesting employer, owned or 
operated by such person.’’. 
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