Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Bill: 117-s-2044
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-06-14
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: 2021-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S4521)

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-06-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits as a form of oppressive child labor the employment of any employee under age 18 who has direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2044 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 14, 2021 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein , Mr. Brown , and Mr. Reed ) 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, .