Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Bill: 119-s-1742
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-05-13
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2025-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S2897)

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1742 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 13, 2025 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal , 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 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 (as described in paragraph (3) of the first sentence of this subsection) tobacco-related agriculture, .