Children Don’t Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3865 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3865

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 14, 2021

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Ms. Bass, Ms. Norton, Mr. McGovern, Ms. 
 Schakowsky, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Chu, and Ms. Velazquez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Children Don't Belong on Tobacco 
Farms Act''.

SEC. 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 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,''.
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