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.

Bill: 114-s-974
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
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: 2015-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2246-2247; text of measure as introduced: CR S2247-2249)

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
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: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 974 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 16, 2015 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Reed , Mrs. Feinstein , and Mr. Brown ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 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 the 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 that 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, .