To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as oppressive child labor.

Bill: 114-hr-1848
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2015-04-16
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Labor standards

Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor

Worker safety and health

Youth employment and child labor
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to redefine &quot;oppressive child labor,&quot; for purposes of child labor prohibitions, to include the employment of any employee under age 18 who has direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1848 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 16, 2015 Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Mr. Vargas , Mr. Rangel , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Schiff , and Mr. Grijalva ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as oppressive child labor.

1. Tobacco-related agriculture employment of children Section 3(l) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 203(l) ) is amended— (1) in this first sentence— (A) by striking in any occupation, or (2) and inserting in any occupation, (2) ; and (B) by inserting before the semicolon the following: , or (3) any employee under the age of eighteen years has direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves ; and (2) in the second sentence, by striking other than manufacturing and mining and inserting , other than manufacturing, mining, and tobacco-related agriculture as described in paragraph (3) of the first sentence of this subsection, .