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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.

S. 974 · 114th Congress · Apr 16, 2015 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 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 that 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,”.