[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5187 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5187

   To amend section 7(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to 
  eliminate the partial overtime exemption for employees that perform 
 services necessary and incidental to the sale and processing of green 
                        and cigar leaf tobacco.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 1994

  Mr. KILDEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 7(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to 
  eliminate the partial overtime exemption for employees that perform 
 services necessary and incidental to the sale and processing of green 
                        and cigar leaf tobacco.

    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 ``Tobacco Workers Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) there are no reasons why employees engaged in the 
        handling and processing of green leaf and cigar leaf tobacco 
        should be excluded from the full protections of the overtime 
        provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; and
            (2) the special retention of the partial overtime exemption 
        for employees that perform services necessary and incidental to 
        the sale and processing of green and cigar leaf tobacco can no 
        longer be justified by reasons of public policy or any other 
        consideration.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT.

    Section 7(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (2 U.S.C. 
207(m)) is repealed.
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