[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 281 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 281

 To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to clarify that forced or indentured 
            labor includes forced or indentured child labor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 21, 1999

  Mr. Harkin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to clarify that forced or indentured 
            labor includes forced or indentured child labor.

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

SECTION 1. FORCED OR INDENTURED CHILD LABOR.

    Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For purposes of this 
section, the term `forced labor or/and indentured labor' includes 
forced or indentured child labor.''.
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