Protect Local Farms Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 353 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 353

   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for the 
 preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2023

 Mr. Williams of New York (for himself, Ms. Tenney, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. 
Molinaro, and Mr. Langworthy) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for the 
 preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.

    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 ``Protect Local Farms Act''.

SEC. 2. PREEMPTION OF CERTAIN STATE OVERTIME LAWS FOR AGRICULTURAL 
              EMPLOYEES.

    Section 18 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 218) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``No provision of this 
        Act or of any order thereunder'' and inserting ``Except as 
        provided in subsection (c), no provision of this Act or of any 
        order thereunder''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) The provisions of this Act shall preempt any State law that 
provides for a maximum workweek for employees employed in agriculture 
of less than 60 hours.''.
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