Future in Logging Careers Act
Bill: H.R.2727 | Sponsor: Rep. Golden, Jared F. (D-ME)
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Future in Logging Careers Act
This bill allows individuals who are 16 or 17 years old to work at certain timber harvesting operations that are owned or operated by at least one parent or a person standing in place of a parent. The bill, therefore, exempts such employees from child labor laws.

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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Future in Logging Careers Act''.

SEC. 2. CHILD LABOR LAW EXEMPTIONS FOR TIMBER HARVESTING ENTITIES AND 
              MECHANIZED TIMBER 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 employer 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 maintaining 
                of roads or camps used in connection with logging; the 
                constructing, repairing, and 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 chainsaws 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 debarkers, 
        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 sixteen and eighteen years 
who is employed--
            ``(1) in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds to 
        be particularly hazardous for the employment of children 
        between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years;
            ``(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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