Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Bill: 116-s-1823
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-06-12
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: 2019-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3367)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act</b></p> <p>This bill redefines "oppressive child labor," for purposes of child labor prohibitions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 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 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1823 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 12, 2019 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. Short title This Act may be cited as Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act . 2. 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 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, .